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 ...

People use half a million straws every single day and most of those end up contaminating our lakes and rivers or stuck in the nostrils of endangered sea creatures. Join a worldwide movement to reduce ...

There’s a lot of chat right now about reducing our plastic use by banning straws. However, sometimes it’s necessary to use a straw if you’re disabled, for example. Often it’s simply more convenient, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the long list of things we should be doing to be more eco-friendly, switching over to reusable straws is one of the easiest.

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