President Donald Trump is trying to bring back plastic drinking straws, reversing efforts to replace them with paper straws that he says "don't work".
On Monday, he signed an executive order overturning a move by his predecessor Joe Biden to phase out government purchases of plastic straws, as well as plastic cutlery and packaging.
Amid concerns about plastic waste accumulating on beaches and in the oceans, and about the fossil fuels required to produce them, several US states and cities have banned plastic straws, and some restaurants no longer automatically give them to customers.
The order tells government agencies to stop buying paper straws "and otherwise ensure that paper straws are no longer provided within agency buildings".
A 2015 video of researchers removing a straw that had got stuck in a turtle's nose went viral and helped fuel a shift away from plastic straws and other single-use items, which sometimes are used for just minutes.
