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Daily Bruin: UCLA Dining should switch to reusable straws for zero waste
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 [...]
Put down your plastic straws, group urges
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 [...]
Straw Free: Environmental Group Wants To Reduce Plastic Straw Waste
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 [...]
Group Hopes To Ban Plastic Straws In Huntington Beach
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 [...]
Last straw? Should California eliminate plastic straws after plastic bag ban?
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. [...]
Restricting use of plastic straws the latest trend to clean up beaches, ocean
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 [...]