(WSET) -- Pasta straws are becoming increasingly popular across Europe. Stroodles is a pasta straw-making company that claims their straws are the most environmentally friendly beating paper straws.

Malibu is just one city of many that has said goodbye to offering plastic straws, leaving restaurants to get creative when serving up straw worthy beverages. Bob Morris of Paradise Cove Beach Cafe ...

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Roughly 8.5 billion plastic straws are used in the U.K. each year, but as a new ban takes effect next April, that number will shrink to zero. One startup is hoping to corner the market for alternative ...

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I've always loved a good straw, and for most of my life, that has meant loving plastic straws. Cheap, easy and always available, they never let me down. But straws have become a flash point in the ...

YOU could soon be sipping on your favourite cocktail using a straw made of pasta. Yes, you heard us correctly. A restaurant in Bristol is already using the environmentally-friendly straws to cut down ...

Plastic straws have a bad rap, but it's for a good reason. Disposable straws made from plastic don't decompose easily and with eight million metric tons of plastic ending up in the ocean each year, ...

As human beings with basic needs, many of us are constantly striving for ways to add more carbs into our diets. It’s a lifestyle that has spawned many memes, stylized infographics for Pinterest boards ...

As a result, many restaurants opted to phase them out. In some cases, products were redesigned so straws were not needed. In others, alternatives were found to plastic straws, including straws made ...

MALIBU, California/SEATTLE, Washington -- Local governments and large companies alike along the west coast of the United States are cutting down on plastic waste and the environmental damage it causes ...