Plastic straws are widely used in the food and beverage industry. However, if you're a cocktail drinker, there may be an ...

Last week, my wife, Sally, and I dropped the kids at a friend's house and headed to Shelter Island for a night at the Pridwin Hotel and Cottages. (I recommend it.) We had cocktails before dinner at ...

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PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a simple way to access a straw for drinking with a cup," said an inventor, from Silver Spring, Md., "so I invented the A Z CUP. My ...

'Eco-friendly' paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, a new study has concluded. "Eco-friendly" paper drinking straws contain long-lasting and potentially toxic ...

The proposal cites health and accessibility concerns and could override local paper straw mandates statewide if passed.

BROADSTONE, England -- We talk a lot about plastic and paper straws, but a woman in England died after she fell onto a metal drinking straw that impaled her eye, according to a newspaper in the U.K.

There’s a lot of serious stuff going on in Washington these days. That’s why I was thankful to see Fox News’ Jesse Watters send a correspondent to Capitol Hill this week to tackle one of the more ...

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 ...

A bill introduced in Florida takes aim at paper drinking straws and stirrers at food businesses and restaurants.

Environmentally friendly and even carbon-negative drinking straws exist, according to a new study. But the analysis also lays bare the potential for greenwashing, littering, and improper disposal to ...