Environment

You know what they say, "no good deed goes unpunished"—and that might just be true when it comes to some of our recent environmental movements.

In the last few years there's been a dramatic push for restaurants and other vendors to provide their customers with paper and other eco-friendly straws for their drinks instead of plastic ones, due to the needs of the environment. Plastic straws take years to break down and are harmful to the wildlife who encounter them and sometimes try to eat them.