Today, a straw made of precious metal like silver or gold might seem like an extravagance. But really, if you sipped out of one, you’d be paying homage to our oldest known straws. Recently, scientists ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every day, Americans toss 500 million plastic straws in the trash. That's enough to fill 125 school buses, or circle the ...

Paper straws, which are being pushed across the U.S. as an eco-friendly alternative to plastic versions, may contain "forever chemicals" that are harmful to both humans and the environment and were ...

A passionate home cook since childhood, Mark Marino has covered food news for numerous national print and digital publications. He also served as the executive director of The Kitchn's shopping team, ...