Students are never really taught how to protect the future of Earth. At least not at the lunch table. But there’s an inconspicuous agent in each person’s drink, one that’s also one of the most unassuming contributors to landfills: straws.   Read Article

The ancient Sumerians, in creating the first straw, probably rejoiced at their ingenuity. But thousands of years later, straws are made of plastic, and they pose a danger to marine life. They have ended up in the noses of turtles, leading to, when humans intervene to help, painful removals. The animals often mistake plastic bags [...]

After voters passed a statewide ban on plastic bags in 2016, one group in Huntington Beach hopes to reduce the use of plastic straws. Straw Free wants to help clean up beaches and waterways across California by getting people to say no to plastic straws. Read Article

Huntington Beach-based StrawFree.org is hoping to make its city the first in Orange County to ban straws, which they say is one of the top 10 pieces of garbage polluting the ocean and not recycled by most municipalities.   Read Article

Californians voted to remove plastic bags from grocery stores, so would they be willing to eliminate plastic straws from their lives too? That’s what many activists are hoping as the war on straws heats up. (Yes, there is a war on straws.)   Read Article

Plastic shopping bags are so 2016. The new trendy target for those who want to reduce the stream of plastic flowing into our oceans, beaches and parks, is something smaller — plastic straws. And since November, when California voters agreed to ban plastic bags from supermarkets and other retailers, people who want similar restrictions on [...]

Diana Lofflin, the founder of StrawFree.org wants the beach town to consider giving up plastic straws in order to help save marine animals. Lofflin told Jo Kwon that straws are not something we necessarily "need in every single drink." Read Article

StrawFree.org is an organization dedicated to the elimination of plastic straws—one bamboo straw at a time. Diana Lofflin, StrawFree.org founder, was moved to action after seeing the amount of plastic straws picked up at local beach cleanups. In fact, more than 500,000,000 straws are used each day in the United States.   Read Article