Order Donald Trump characters, bring us back towards plastic straws

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive regulation in which the US government ends efforts to replace plastic straws with paper.

The command, which immediately becomes effective, reverses a measure that was signed by the former President Joe Biden, which had referred to plastic pollution as a “crisis”.

Last week, Trump – who “did not work” and “disgusted” in the mouths of the consumers, said that Trump – sold during his electoral campaign of 2020 Marken plastic straws.

In 2024, bids ordered a gradual end of the US government purchases from plastic straws as well as plastic cutlery and packaging.

Trump’s guideline orders the government authorities to cease the purchase of paper straws and calls for a strategy to eliminate them nationwide.

“We go back to plastic straws,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Monday.

“These things don’t work, I have had them often and occasionally break them, they explode. If something is hot, they don’t last long, like a question of minutes, sometimes a question of seconds. It’s a ridiculous situation,” said Trump .

As part of a more comprehensive efforts to target plastic pollution, the bid administration announced last year that it would gradually leave the course of food packaging, operations and events by 2027 and 2035 to 2027 by 2035 to 2027.

Trump was a long -time critic of paper straws.

During his campaign, which was re -elected in 2020, which he ultimately lost, plastic straws were sold by Trump brands -at 15 US dollars for a 10 -dollar pack -as a replacement for what he described as “liberal” paper straws .

In total, the campaign reported almost 500,000 US dollars from straw sales in the first few weeks alone.

Some statistics Put the number of disposable drinking straws In the United States at 500 million a day – although this number is hotly controversial and the true total could be about half.

A number of US cities and countries -including Seattle, Washington; California; Oregon; And New Jersey – have accepted rules that limit the use of plastic straws or that companies only make them available after the survey of customers.

Statistics of the UN Environment program show that 460 million tons of plastic are produced every year, which contributes to waste in the ocean and in microplastics, which can affect human health.

Some studies have shown that paper straws contain considerable amounts of “chemicals” such as polyfluoralkyl substances or PFAs forever.

Pfas can remain in the environment for decades, contaminate water supply and cause a variety of health problems.