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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order that ends an effort from the United States government to replace plastic straws with paper.
The order, which comes into effect immediately, invests a measure signed by former President Joe Biden, who had called for plastic pollution a “crisis.”
Last week, Trump, who sold brand plastic straws during his 2020 electoral campaign, said that paper straws “do not work” and “disgustingly” dissolve in the mouth of consumers.
In 2024, Biden ordered a gradual ending for the purchases of the United States Government of Plastic Pajitas, as well as plastic covered and containers.
Trump’s directive orders government agencies to stop buying paper straws and ask for a strategy to eliminate them throughout the country.
“We will return to the plastic straws,” Trump told White House journalists on Monday.
“These things do not work, I have had them many times, and sometimes, they break, explode. If something is hot, they do not last long, as a matter of minutes, sometimes a matter of seconds. It is a ridiculous situation,” he said Trump
As part of a broader effort to point to plastic pollution, the Biden administration last year announced that it would gradually eliminate plastics of a single use of food containers, operations and events by 2027, and of all federal operations by 2035 .
Trump has been a long -standing critic of paper straws.
During his campaign to be re -elected president in 2020, which finally lost, “Trump” brand plastic straws were sold, at $ 15 for a 10 package, as a replacement of what he called “liberal” paper straws.
In total, the campaign is reported that almost $ 500,000 of straw sales only in the first weeks.
Some statistics Place the number of disposable straws to drink used In the United States to 500 million a year, although that figure is very disputed and the true total could be approximately half of that.
Several cities and US states, including Seattle, Washington; California; Oregon; and New Jersey: they have adopted rules that limit the use of plastic straws or require companies to provide them only after customers ask them.
The statistics of the UN Environment Program show that 460 million plastic metric tons are produced each year, contributing to waste in the ocean and microplastics that can affect human health.
Some studies have shown that paper straws, however, contain significant amounts of “chemical products forever”, such as polyfluoroalquilo substances, or PFA.
PFAs can remain in the environment for decades, contaminate water supplies and cause a variety of health problems.
