Bet you didn’t see this one coming
Trump says he’ll sign order promoting plastic straws
President Trump said Friday he plans to sign an executive order promoting plastic straws after his predecessor sought to phase out single-use plastics from government operations.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work. BACK TO PLASTIC!”
The post appears to be referring to former President Biden’s goal of phasing out single-use plastic — like plastic straws — in federal food service by 2027 and government operations at large by 2035.
Plastics are produced using oil and gas, and promoting the use of the material could be a win for Trump’s allies in the energy industry as well as the plastics industry.
When the Biden goals were announced, the White House said plastic was “littering our ocean, poisoning the air of communities near production facilities, and threatening public health.”
And the climate cultists have been dead set against anything made with petroleum, because they’re wackos.
Microplastics have become omnipresent in the environment. Human exposure to these tiny plastics have been linked to brain development and reproductive development issues in animal studies.
These aren’t necessarily microplastics. The better, wiser, and more responsible thing to do would have been to push for private citizens and corporations to develop alternatives that works as well, not those horrible paper straws, and annoying metal ones. As a true environmentalist I’m all for reducing plastic pollution. Of course, we still have India, China, and other Southeast Asian countries who are big time polluters to deal with. But the cultists and enviro-weenies, often one and the same, do not care about using science, they’re more about political power.
While it’s not totally clear what material straws, if any, would have replaced plastic in federal use, other types, including paper, may also pose environmental and health concerns. A 2023 study found that compounds known as PFAS, which make materials water resistant but can be toxic, were found in almost all types of straws, including paper and bamboo.
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????President Trump announces Executive Order coming next week to end paper straws:
“BACK TO PLASTIC” pic.twitter.com/T0N2A2g4q6
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 7, 2025
What would have been funnier is if Trump had said was 100% against plastic straws and utensils, that the paper and alternatives were big and wonderful and great: the Leftists would have then opposed him and would want plastic back. You cannot tell me I’m wrong.
