A year-old company called EQUO is out with its first line of products: Drinking straws made from grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. And you can smell the ingredients and eat the rice straws: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, a straw made of precious metal like silver or gold might seem like an extravagance. But really, if you sipped out of one, ...

Funny how a little thing can become a big thing. Like many of life’s turning points, it started innocently enough. A little over a year ago, just relaxing, reading the Sunday Buffalo News. My sweet ...

Organic Waste Systems (OWS), based in Belgium, conducted a home compostable study, concluding that the phade straw completely deteriorates in nine weeks. It's pictured here at the start of the study ...