LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In a warehouse area of the Wabash Center on Lafayette's north end, little plastic chips are fed into a machine to be colored red and spun into the shape of a drinking straw. As the ...

In an Indiana warehouse area on Lafayette's north end, little plastic chips are fed into a machine to be colored red and spun into the shape of a drinking straw. As the long, continuous straw makes ...

Humans for millennia siphoned the liquid pleasures of life between their lips through a hollow piece of grass — through straw. It took a 19th-century American entrepreneur, a Civil War veteran from ...

The global issue of plastic pollution has led to a search for sustainable alternatives to disposable plastic products. One of the most problematic items is the plastic straw, which is lightweight, non ...