Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. When Milwaukee’s ban on single-use plastic straws goes into ...

My mother never encouraged the use of straws — they cause wrinkles, she says. That’s bad enough, but there are also serious consequences to the environment that have caused bars and restaurants to ...

NEW ORLEANS - A nationwide effort to eliminate plastic straws has made its way to New Orleans. Restaurants and bars have decided to hand out alternatives, or not at all. In the Quarter, almost ...

A straw ban has come to Washington, D.C., and with it, a pop-up bar celebrating the plastic suckers' demise. Starting this week and running until December 30, local watering hole and concert venue DC9 ...

It’s been almost six months since a statewide law took effect requiring that sit-down restaurants provide disposable plastic straws only upon request–and about a month since a Los Angeles city ...

One of this year's biggest drink trends isn't a cocktail, or even an ingredient—it's the controversial paper straw. The national push to eliminate plastic in drinks seemed to have started with the ...

My mother never encouraged the use of straws – they cause wrinkles, she says. That’s bad enough, but there are also serious consequences to the environment that have caused bars and restaurants to ...