Shedding the straw addiction is gaining momentum throughout the United States and United Kingdom as restaurants and coffee houses provide alternatives. Backlot Coffee eliminated plastic straws from its shops in Chicago and Evanston and offering customers paper or commercially-compostable straws.
Source: www.forbes.com
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