Trump brings back plastic straws – because he claims paper ones ‘explode’ Trump condemned the ‘ridiculous situation’ created by the Biden administration in its attempt to phase out single-use plastic from federal operations.
Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary who presented the executive order to Trump, said the war on single-use plastic straws has cost the public and private industry “an absolute ton of money and left consumers all over the country wildly dissatisfied with their straws”.
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to bring back plastic straws because their paper counterparts “explode.”.
We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump told reporters while signing the order in the White House on Monday.
The president, who has a penchant for Diet Coke and McDonald’s, with the fast food industry increasingly moving away from single-use plastic, has long rallied against paper straws.
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