A year-old company called EQUO is out with its first line of products: Drinking straws made from grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. And you can smell the ingredients and eat the rice straws: ...

In February, while Sabrina Greenberg lunched with her husband, Jared, in Miami Beach, she wasn’t just surprised that her smoothie’s beige straw didn’t get soggy as she sipped away — Greenberg tasted ...

FALMOUTH - Plastic straws are easy, convenient, and part of our takeaway culture. There have been paper substitutes out there, but they turn to mush and don't do the job. Researchers in Massachusetts ...

Paper drinking straws — those sometimes-soggy but mostly plant-based utensils — may be more likely to contain “forever chemicals” than straws made of other materials, according to recent research. The ...

Organic Waste Systems (OWS), based in Belgium, conducted a home compostable study, concluding that the phade straw completely deteriorates in nine weeks. It's pictured here at the start of the study ...