If, like me, you’ve been trying to be more environmentally conscious, you know that cutting back on single-use plastics (or not using them at all) is a good place to start. Maybe that means bringing ...

Miles Pepper was training for a half marathon when he came up with a million-dollar idea. Pepper, a cinematographer from Sebastopol, California, began picking up plastic straws on the streets of Los ...

The drama around plastic straws has taken yet another turn. In the wake of plastic straws being banned, a number of green alternatives have come into the market, including FinalStraw, which calls ...

We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. It’s hard to believe the humble drinking straw has become Public Enemy No. 1, but here we are. As it turns ...

In the United States alone over 500 million straws are used and discarded every single day. To help stem the horrific waste Emma Cohen and Miles Pepper have created the world’s first collapsible and ...

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Well before Starbucks got around to banning them, Emma Cohen was on a mission to rid the planet of plastic straws. Throughout her childhood, she had shown an early interest in protecting the ...

We've got a huge plastic problem and drinking straws play no small part, with 500 million used in the US everyday alone. Startup FinalStraw is on a mission to limit our use of these single-use strands ...

Plastic straws are everywhere, but they’re terrible for the environment. They’re not bio-degradable and aren’t reused, so they just pile up in landfills and often end up in nature. The good news is ...

In order to keep disposable plastic straws from ending up in the ocean and harming sea animals, companies like Disney, Starbucks and Whole Foods have all vowed not to carry the item, most of which can ...