From seaweed to sugarcane, companies race to find the next great plastic replacement Small businesses are scrambling to meet the demand from consumers who want an alternative to plastic straws.

Correctly sizing plastic tubes is important for fitting them to the needs of the application. Nominal sizes for tubing are based on the outside diameter, which measures ... finish or color of the ...

causing large or heavy items on top of them to fall or collapse inward. When asked about the recent switch many have made from plastic to paper straws, Chung said that people want to reduce their ...

If you’ve been hemming and hawing about whether to plunk down roughly $20 on a Lifestraw, the multitudes of Amazon Prime Day ...

The research team purchased 39 different brands of drinking straw made from five materials – paper, bamboo, glass, stainless steel and plastic. The straws, which were mainly bought from shops ...

INA, Nagano Prefecture--Too much plastic in the ocean was ... a month and processed into drinking straws. The straws measure 3 to 4 millimeters in diameter and come in two lengths of 18 cm and ...

It seems we hear non-stop about single-use plastics in our everyday lives, and we’re taking action: people are eschewing disposable coffee cups, refusing plastic straws and calling out ...

a family removes labels from plastic bottles, sorting green from clear ones to sell to a scrap dealer. Waste pickers here average around $100 a month. The scene in Manila is typical of large ...

When our large dog decided to get a drink out of ... To set up the Aisitin pump, we used four plastic straws (included), inserting them into each side of the floating unit to center it over ...

The bill, approved Thursday, also bans carry-out plastic bags ... It also requires straws and plasticware to be available only by request and creates a program to recycle large items like car ...