President Trump signs order shifting U.S. back to plastic straws. Here are South Florida cities with paper straw bans.

Poly-Pak Industries Inc., which has manufactured plastic bags at the company’s headquarters at 125 Spagnoli Rd. since the mid-1970s and has 177 employees, filed the Worker Adjustment and Retraining ...

You’ve heard the one about the beat of a butterfly’s wings leading to a hurricane on the other side of the world, but here’s ...

The decision has frustrated advocates who spent over a year working to get the ban on the ballot. Lawmakers overturn ban on ...

President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws “don’t work.” ...

"The President is committed to taking ambitious actions to end plastic pollution and is calling upon the global community to ...

A switch to paper straws has come with some valid criticism regarding their effectiveness - including from the president - and a study in 2023 found they have their own health risks: namely, forever ...

President Donald Trump announced plans to sign an executive order next week reversing federal support for paper straws, ...

Illinois lawmakers in the state House have already filed more than 1,800 bills that could be acted on before the General ...

The European Union announced new regulations on packaging waste, which will significantly reduce single-use plastic.

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples ...

Illinois House lawmakers propose bills for community-based prison alternatives and a ban on single-use plastic and paper bags ...