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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order for the return of plastic straws, stating that the paper “does not work” and does not last long.
“It’s a ridiculous situation. Let’s go back to the plastic straws,” said Donald Trump, when he signed the executive order to review federal purchasing policies that restrict plastic straws.
A which has long criticized the paper straws and even sold in the 2019 Trump brand reelection campaign, aims at a Biden Administration policy to gradually eliminate federal disposable plastic purchases for food service operations, events and packaging until 2027, and from all federal operations by 2035.
In a social media publication over the weekend, Donald Trump has declared the politics of former President Joe Biden “dead!”
Despite warnings that plastic straws pollute the oceans and harm marine life, Trump considers that “no problem” in continuing to use them.
“I don’t think plastic affects the sharks that are chewing in the ocean,” Trump said during an ad in the White House.
“President Trump is advancing in the wrong direction”
Several states and cities in the United States have banned plastic straws and some restaurants no longer give them automatically to customers, but these are just a small part of the problem, since the environment is full of for food and drinks.
Many multinational companies have also abandoned their use and have reducing the use of plastic in their operations a central element of their sustainability goals, making Trump’s decision an exception in the business world.
Trump’s order is “more about messages than about finding solutions,” said Christy Leavitt, director of plastic campaign from the Oceana environmental group, noting that most US voters support the requirement that companies reduce plastic packaging of single use.
“President Trump is moving in the wrong direction of unique plastics,” he said, highlighting that “the world is facing a crisis of plastic pollution,” and one cannot ignore “one of the biggest environmental threats” ” that the oceans and the planet today face.
But Trump’s initiative was applauded by the plastic manufacturing industry, with the president of the Plastics Industry Association, Matt Seaholm, to say that “the straws are just the beginning.”
“Back to Plastic” is a movement we should all support, “said Matt Seaholm.
Plessws take at least 200 years to decompose
More than 390 million straws are used daily in the US, mostly for 30 minutes or less, according to the Straws Turtle Island Restoration Network.
The straws take at least 200 years to decompose and represent And other wild animals, since they degrade in microplastics, warns.
“To prevent one more marine turtle from being a victim of plastic, we have to change our personal life style to fight for these species,” the group said in a statement.
US manufacturers asked Trump to remain at the negotiation table and to return to Biden’s previous position, which focused on the reformulation of plastic products, recycling and reuse.
White House Personnel Secretary Will Scharf, who presented the executive order to Trump, told him that the pressure for the paper straws cost to the government and the private industry “an absolute ton of money and left consumers at all Country extremely dissatisfied with their straws “.
The order orders federal agencies to review the acquisition processes to allow the use of plastic straws. “This is really something that affects the common Americans in their daily lives,” said Scharf.
