Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

Nuñez was one of the first people to start advocating for ditching plastic straws, back in 2009. In the early days, ...

"What I found was, even the bad press was good press," Nuñez says. When people were bashing her anti-plastic-straw crusade ... less on wildlife (sorry sea-turtles), and more on the negative ...