We suck at recycling straws—so maybe we should ban them. Reduce, reuse. By Amal Ahmed. Published Feb 8, 2018 11:48 PM EST. Thousands of plastic straws never make it through the recycling stream.

The fast food company switched its straws from plastic to paper, but admits it isn't recycling the new straws. The problem? Dodgy recycling infrastructure and a short-term approach to sustainability ...

McDonald's restaurants in Europe serves paper straws to customers to avoid using plastic — but those paper straws, it turns out, are not yet able to be recycled.

An estimated 500 million single-use plastic straws are used and thrown away every day in the U.S. alone. And most of those wind up in in our landfills, oceans and beaches.

When it comes to straws, it is all green washing. In the UK, we use a massive 4.7 billion annually , but straws make up just 0.025 per cent of total plastic waste in the ocean.

“Plastic straws and other items smaller than two by two inches, such as plastic utensils, fall through the machinery that sorts our recycling,” says Jonathan Kuhl of the D.C. Department of ...

Q: Why can’t we recycle straws? A: Straws are not accepted as part of our county recycling program. Straws will be identified as a contaminant if found in our plastic bales.

Please don't recycle plastic drinking straws. There is not a market for the type of plastic used in these straws. If you have heard about sea turtles with straws in their noses, recycling these ...

The straws are not recyclable because they are so small. They take at least 200 years to decompose, the network said. They break down into incredibly tiny bits of plastic smaller than a fraction ...

One study out of the University of Antwerp in Belgium showed that paper straws — as well as those made of glass and bamboo — are coated in PFAS, aka "forever chemicals." Here's what to use ...

ECO-CONSCIOUS home improvers have helped recycle the equivalent of 500 million plastic straws by resurfacing driveways. Oltco, the UK’s leading sustainable driveway specialist, has recycled the ...