President Donald Trump is bringing plastic straws back to the US, signing a new executive order that would end a measure begun by former President Joe Biden to replace plastic straws with paper ones.
Not only do the microplastics from these straws leach into the water supply, but the straws can also be harmful to wildlife, being mistaken for food and getting stuck in the throats of animals and seabirds, or lodging themselves in the nostrils of aquatic animals.
Mr Trump told reporters present at the White House on Monday, February 10 when he signed the executive order that paper straws “don’t work.”.
Mr Trump claimed that paper straws “don’t work” and has ordered government agencies to stop buying them.
Environmental agencies around the world have long since agreed that plastic straws are harmful to the environment for a number of reasons.
