Lids are the only exception in a proposed ordinance going before the City Council tonight to ban single-use plastic in restaurants and grocery stores throughout the city. As currently written, the ...

Louisiana should tighten up its open container law by requiring drive-through daiquiri shops to use lids that can't be punctured by a straw. Doing so wouldn't prevent a customer who's determined to ...

Southampton Town officials estimate that residents and visitors discard about 20 million straws and 8 million polystyrene cups each year, and much of that ends up along the towns beaches. These ...

San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to give plastic straws the cold shoulder, following the lead of Seattle, another eco-conscious West Coast city where a ban went into effect this month. The San ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to give plastic straws the cold shoulder, following the lead of Seattle, another eco-conscious West Coast city where a ban went into ...