President Trump explained the last straw. Or at least the paper used by federal authorities.
In an executive regulation this week, the President banned the Federal Government the purchase of paper straws to ensure that they will soon disappear from cafeterias and will break rooms in government buildings across the country.
However, he does not listen to the federal government, but has ordered the development of a “national strategy to terminate the use of paper straws” until March 27, which “alleviate the forced use of paper poles nationwide”.
According to the White House, paper straws are not the environmentally friendly alternative that they seem to be, and are so thin that Sipper sometimes need several to get to the bottom of their drinks.
“Cities and countries across America banned plastic straws and put pressure on the printing of Woke activists who prioritize symbolism from science,” said the White House.
The order reverses an initiative from the bidea era, in which federal procurement offices had to buy paper straws instead of plastic, and was part of a more comprehensive effort to target plastic pollution.
Environmentalists condemned Trumps and said that most Americans support the reduction in the use of unnecessary plastic.
“People hate that the pollution of plastic violates the wildlife and the environment displaced,” said David Derrick, a lawyer in the Center for Biological Diversity. “I don't know what Trump nipped that has brought him into contact with it, but this step is made life worse for everyone and seems to have more to do with deficient common sense.”
Christy Leavitt from the non -profit environmental group Oceana found that two plastic worth two garbage trolleys are unloaded in Oceans every 60 seconds. Microscopic plastic pieces are available in a human brain, liver, kidneys, heart and testicle tissue. And research has microplastics in bottle water, beer and found Seafood.
According to the US environmental protection authority, less than 6% of the plastic waste are recycled in the USA. According to Leavitt, surveys that are carried out by their organization show that 80% of US voters support regulations according to which companies have to reduce one-way plastic packaging and food packaging.
“Instead of doing what is necessary to protect the health of the Americans, communities and coasts from omnipresent plastic pollution, President Trump announces Executive Orders who are more about messaging than messages than solutions,” she said.
Erin Levine from California's World Centric, manufacturer of compostable, vegetable food coast and packaging, said that Trump's executive order contained incorrect information about paper straws, including the statement that they are coated with PFAs-a cancer regulatory “Forever Chemical” that was found in water systems in Whole country that was developed to ward off water and spots.
“You don't need it and it would be more expensive to add it,” she said. “By the way, if paper straws had Pfas, they would not collapse, as he says.”
A 2023 study by Belgian researchers found Pfas They analyzed in most paper straws. It was unclear whether the PFAs were deliberately added to ward off water, or as a result of contaminants from recycled products, PfAS-contamed water or pfas-loaded fertilizer-from biosolide-out biosolide-to-use cultivation of the plant material that was used for production The plant was used.
Levine said she couldn't speak for other companies, but World Centric uses a five-load paper, so that it does not have to use a biocaste or coating in its straws. She said it used an adhesive with food quality, but that also has no PFAs.
The straws are compostable, she said, which means that no pfas.
In California, a law from 2018 prohibits the full service restaurants to provide plastic straws unless the customer demands. The legislation was written after the legislator had found years of plastic pollution on beaches and waterways. Between 1988 and 2014, the California coastal commission reported around 835,000 straws on the beaches of the state for cleaning up and other campaigns to reduce pollution.
Plastic straws were also found, which protruded from sea turtles and nose and nose and nose and fishing, fish, sea cows, dolphins and other marine mammals.
Plastic straws were also banned or restricted in at least 155 jurisdiction in the city or the district throughout California, including Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and San Francisco.
Trump has had a resentment against paper straws for years. During his 2020 campaign, which he lost, he marketed plastic straw “Trump” as a replacement for “liberal” paper straws. A pack of 10 for $ 15.
According to reports, the campaign reported almost 500,000 US dollars from straw sales in the first few weeks.