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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Fourth of July weekend is here and it's that time of year when people are celebrating with family, friends and fireworks. This is also the time of year when injuries related to ...

Starbucks is one of the United States' biggest users of single-use plastic cups, and despite company requests for customers to place their expended cups in their recycle bins, CBS News has discovered ...

The numbers are staggering. According to one report, the world uses 500 billion plastic cups every year. It's estimated that 50 billion paper coffee cups are thrown away in the United States alone.

Amid the ongoing plastic-straw backlash that reached a fever pitch in 2018, many companies have ditched or pledged to ditch single-use plastic straws, including Starbucks, Hyatt, and American Airlines ...