Read more: Every McDonald's Burger, Ranked Worst To Best Sustainability may be one possible reason for the switch -- but that doesn't seem likely, as the new straws are also made from plastic.

Fearless green crusader and fast food behemoth McDonald’s is keeping up the good fight against the environmental menace of … plastic straws. Yes, the chain is moving nationally to a ...

McDonald's will start testing plastic straw alternatives at select US locations this year. In the UK, the company has decided to adopt biodegradable paper straws. The announcement comes amid calls ...

On Monday, Starbucks announced that it will eliminate plastic straws globally by 2020. McDonald's said last month that it plans to test plastic straw alternatives at select US locations this year.

But you can't drink it properly with a regular straw. No sir, a regular straw just wouldn't do here, so McDonald's hired some aerospace and robotic engineers to redesign the straw to deliver the ...

Beginning next month, all McDonald’s in the U.K. will ban the use of plastic straws in order to be eco-friendly. Several cities in the U.S, including Seattle, Fort Meyers, Fla., and Malibu ban ...

Last year, McDonald's made headlines after it announced that it would be pulling plastic straws from all of its UK locations and replacing them with paper straws. But it turns out these straws are ...

The only "green" our economy cares about is the dollar, and one day, we are going to wish we cared about the green on the ...

Players of all shapes and sizes have jumped on the bandwagon to phase out plastic straws, from big companies like Starbucks and Mcdonald’s, to cities like Vancouver and New York, and even local ...