Malibu Bans Plastic Utensils, Straws. The City Council unanimously voted Monday to ban all plastic cutlery and straws, citing concerns over keeping beaches clean and protecting the environment.

Plastic straws, bowls and utensils can take 1,000 years to decompose naturally. Most don’t fully break down, instead becoming microplastics that make it into waterways and animals — and ...

(CNN) -- If you use a plastic straw or plastic utensils in Seattle now, get ready to pay. A ban went into effect Sunday outlawing those particular straws and utensils at "all food service ...

SEATTLE - Plastic straws, utensils and cocktail picks will be banned at all Seattle businesses that sell food or drinks under a new law that takes effect July 1.Seattle is believed to be the first ...

FOX NEWS - Seattle has officially become the first major U.S. city to ban restaurants from giving plastic straws and utensils to customers in an effort to help the environment. Starting July 1 ...

SEATTLE - Seattle is about to become the first city in the country to ban plastic utensils and straws in restaurants and take-outs, starting July 1.In preparation, environmentalists onboard ...

Seattle on Sunday became the first major U.S. city to ban plastic straws and utensils.The full ban went into effect on July 1, a decade after the city first introduced a measure requiring restauran… ...

Starting July 1, Seattle will prevent restaurants from offering plastic straws or utensils to customers under penalty of a $250 fine. New York City proposed legislation to ban plastic straws by ...

ST. PETERSBURG — The next frontier in the fight to save the planet is written on a paper sign taped to the front door of Pom Pom's Teahouse & Sandwicheria on Central Avenue.

“Paper (straw) just doesn’t work,” Evan Santiago, the owner of Hybrid Coffee and Kitchen, said. ... Jersey City council picking a fight with plastic straws and utensils.

Seattle Becomes Latest City To Ban Plastic Straws, Utensils July 2, 2018 / 3:15 PM / CBS Philadelphia (CNN) -- If you use a plastic straw or plastic utensils in Seattle now, get ready to pay.