The shipments included 14 tons of used plastic straws and an additional 170 tons of plastic waste from Germany.

Sally obeyed, and tried to suck the liquid through a bent plastic straw.

Tim Mooney I don't see any marked advantage of putting a plastic straw in a fishbowl.

There are, however, alternatives to disposable plastic straws:

"These are my pet peeve," Mr. Weber says, picking up our first plastic straw of the day.

Joseph Robinson showed how a plastic straw could be cut to simulate an oboe's double reed.

The bartender, plastic straw dangling from his mouth, serves up a sugary sangria that is just this side of Kool-Aid.

She chewed on the plastic straw till it was useless, and tore up several napkins.

TOM: It's that plastic straw that got you.

When he woke, he was given his breakfast '-to drink through a bent plastic straw.