With multiple straw bans soon to go into effect, bubble-tea vendors will be forced to become environmental pioneers. Photo: Kimberlee Reimer/Getty Images With its hot, humid climate and venerable ...

Several hundred shops sell boba drinks across San Francisco, according to Yelp, and all now have a year to find an alternative for their plastic straws if they want to avoid fines from the city ...

Bubble tea, or boba, features large tapioca balls at the bottom meant to be sucked up through a plastic straw. Vendors say paper straws don't always work as well, and they're more expensive.

Boba Guys, which helped craft San Francisco's strict no-PLA straw ban, debuted its new stainless steel, BPA-free metal straw at its two locations — Culver City and Echo Park — on February 1 ...

The plastic straw ban could affect hundreds of boba tea shops in the city. Some owners say they're not sure what they're going to do if the large plastic straws, which are crucial to their ...

A proposed ban on straws in San Francisco could be troublesome for the city’s ubiquitous boba tea shops. Boba tea contains balls of tapioca that are sucked up with a large straw.

Boba straws are wider and thicker than normal drinking straws. They're used for a tea-based drink that includes tapioca balls at the bottom of the cup. For Pisano and Dotson, ...

Boba straws are wider and thicker than normal drinking straws. They're used for a tea-based drink that includes tapioca balls at the bottom of the cup. For Pisano and Dotson, ...

Fat Straws is like many other boba tea shops: It's colorful and bright and fun. Yet the boba world is strangely cutthroat. With so many bubble tea shops saturating the Dallas market, ...

Where to Find Bubble Tea in the INW. Awaken Coffee 5767 N. Atlas Rd., Coeur d'Alene. Black Straw Tea Bar & Kitchen 11808 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley. Boba Bubble 4750 N. Division St ...