Trump signs order to bring back plastic straws claiming paper ones ‘explode’ | Trump administration

on monday, Donald Trump He seized a “ridiculous position” that directly affects his daily life: straw.

An executive decline in the Biden Administration policy to gradually get rid of federal purchases of plastic for one use, including straw, from food services, events and packaging by 2027, and from all federal operations by 2035.

It is ridiculous. Trump told reporters at the White House while signing this. “These things do not work,” he said, referring to the straw of paper. “I took them several times, sometimes, they explode, they explode.”

But Trump, such a fan of drinking cookies that he installed button In the Oval Office in order to summon employees to hand over the drink, he has long been inhabited against any restrictions on the plastic straw. When trying to obtain a re -election in 2020, his campaign Sold Reuscophable straw on its website claims that “the liberal paper straw does not work.”

While the plastic straw was blamed for polluting the oceans and abusing marine life, Trump said on Monday he believed “it is okay” to continue to use it. He said in the White House announcement: “I do not think that the plastic will affect the shark a lot as it is … they spend their way across the ocean.”

White House Secretary, Will Charf, who provided Trump’s executive, told him that paying for the straw of paper has cost the government and the private industry, “a lot of money and left consumers all over the country are not satisfied with their straw.”

Federal agencies are directed to review purchases to allow the use of plastic straw. “It is really something that affects the ordinary Americans in their daily lives,” said Sharaf.

The plastic manufacturing industry praised the Trump step.

“The straw is not just a beginning,” Matt Siholem, President and CEO of the company Plastic The Industry Association said, in a statement. “Return to Plastic” is a movement that we must fall behind. “

The world is subject The abundance of new plastic productionAnd a summit between the two countries last year Failure To address this, despite the increasing recognition of the damage caused by waste that takes hundreds of years to destroy. Global annual plastic production has doubled in the two decades since 2000 to about 460 million tons, and is expected to sparkle again by 2050.

Less than 10 % of this plastic waste It is now recycled. The rest always ends in the environment, with the equivalent of one truck full of plastic that casts its contents in the ocean every minute, according to expert estimates. A large part of this garbage consists of plastic for one use, such as straw, which compensates on 40 % of plastic production.

The result of this boom was a world full of plastic, with large or microscopic fragments of the materials in each pillar of the planet, Even in the air. Creatures, sea birds, suffocating, birds and small birds are found in the depths of the bodies of animals, including humans. Research has found that plastic materials are present in people Brainsfor Testiclesfor blood Even Placenta.

More than 390 million straws are used every day in the United States, most of them for 30 minutes or less, according to the Restoration Group Straws Turctle Island. The group says that the straw takes at least 200 years to degrade and pose a threat to turtles and other wildlife because it decomposes to accurate plastic.

“To prevent the other sea turtle from becoming a victim of plastic, we must make changes in the personal lifestyle to fight for these species,” the group said in a statement.

Oliver Melman contributed to this report