(Natural News) Plastic straws may seem harmless, but if everyone in your neighborhood threw away a plastic straw once a day for one week, you would all accumulate a lot of plastic waste. Straws don’t decompose, and seabirds and animals ingest plastic. A startup called Loliware has designed “The Straw of the Future” – which is […]

(Natural News) You don’t have to be insane or dumb to drink Starbucks coffee, but you might want to stop thinking for a few minutes if you’re trying to make sense of their environmentally-conscious (or unconscious in this case) efforts to reduce single-use plastic situations. Before you cast judgment though, this is not a one-time […]

(Natural News) In honor of World Environment Day, the U.N. is calling on decisive action to stem one of our planet’s biggest environmental threats: plastic pollution. The statistics are mind-blowing: 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans and seas each year. The number of microplastics found in the ocean outnumber the stars […]

(Natural News) California often makes headlines for its groundbreaking legislation, but a recently proposed law is getting attention for all the wrong reasons. AB 1884 would see waiters hit with a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail for offering guests plastic straws in their drinks. The bill was introduced by Democratic California Assembly Majority […]