Lou Zhongping has embraced new technology and lean manufacturing to make his company, Soton Daily Necessities Co. Ltd., the largest maker of drinking straws in the world.

On January 1, 2019, a ban on plastic straws in restaurants and other service businesses began in Washington, D.C. Read on for the reasons behind such bans, and how we got here. At the beginning of ...

A big food-service company with eateries at major U.S. college campuses, museums and other institutions is going to ban plastic straws and stirrers at all of its more than 1,000 locations in 33 ...

Drinking straws that are made from materials like paper and bamboo are often promoted as more ... are a large group of over 4,000 synthetic chemicals that are used in a wide range of products due ...

Paper drinking straws invented by Marvin C. Stone were produced industrially during a large part of the 20th century in this facility. Photographed on June 20, 2019, as Washington, D.C., enacted a ...

Long gold and silver tubes measuring over three feet long may be the world’s oldest surviving drinking straws – and Bronze Age society likely used them to gulp down massive quantiies of beer ...

Large-scale brewing began in Western Asia in the fifth to the fourth millennium B.C., and there are seal impressions from that time in what is now Iraq and Iran showing people drinking through straws.

Matthew brought two large blue plastic glasses of water and two drinking straws. You don’t need a straw to drink a glass of water, unless you’re in a hospital bed. But straws have been in the ...

Drinking Straw Market Dynamics and Growth Trends The global Drinking Straw market, valued at USD 25,845 million in 2022, is set to achieve substantial growth, reaching USD 136,282 million by 2030 ...

Drinking straws that are made from materials like paper and bamboo are often promoted as more ... are a large group of over 4,000 synthetic chemicals that are used in a wide range of products due ...