Take a stroll down any major beach and it likely won’t be long before you stumble upon some abandoned refuse. Old water bottles, trash bags, straws, and countless other variations of plastic ...

We have all talked about how we’ve got to be moving to zero waste. This is one way at our county facilities that we can begin ...

The famed beach capital of Malibu in California was the first to issue a total ban of single-use plastic straws on June 1st. You can now expect to get a paper straw with your Starbucks iced coffee ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: You've probably seen this video. That's a plastic straw being pulled out of a sea turtle's nose. The video went viral in 2015 sparking a public ...

Skip straws. Unless you have medical needs ... Worldwide, 73 percent of beach litter is plastic: cigarette butts (the filters), bottles and caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, polystyrene containers.

Businesses ditching plastic drinking straws for eco-friendly alternatives ... and it found they were among the top 10 items found in beach clean-ups last year. A major report on Wednesday said ...