The president of the United States, Donald Trumpby decree the end of the prohibitions imposed on plastic straws for sip liquids and announced their purpose of End the use of paperthat years ago they adopted large cities, states and companies for ecological reasons.
What Trump calls the “irrational campaign” against plastic straws has ended through an executive order signed on Monday night in addition to many others, among which is the imposition of a tariff tax of 25 % to all US imports of Aluminum and steel.
“Plastic straws are often replaced by paper straws, which are not functional, use chemicals that can lead to risks to human health, are more expensive to produce already often force users to use several. In addition, paper straws sometimes are involved individually in plastic, which undermines the environmental argument that justifies its use ”argues the executive order
The decree establishes that, for all this, “The policy of the United States is to end the use of paper straws.”
The Democrat’s government Joe Biden (2021-2025) last year approved a plan to gradually reduce the single-use plastics such as straws or covered in government departments, with the aim of eliminating them by 2035.
Trump, who has decided to remove the United States from the Paris Agreement, aimed at reducing the emission of greenhouse gases in order to curb global warming, instructs in the decree to those in charge of purchases by the State to take “All appropriate measures to eliminate the acquisition of paper straws and ensure that they are no longer provided within the agencies buildings” Government.
It also indicates that “within 45 days as of the date of this order (February 10), the president’s assistant for internal policy, in coordination with the relevant agencies, will issue a “National strategy to end the use of paper straws’.”
The “The Last Plastic Straw” movement (the last plastic straw), which is part of the coalition against plastic pollution, estimates that more than 500 million plastic straws are used in the United States every day.
“Only in the last twenty years, people have expected each drink to include plastic straws, which constitutes an example of how an extreme waste is generated for minimal comfort. These short -duration tools are generally thrown in the trash without thinking twice and instantly become a source of plastic pollution, ”says the organization on its website.
Among the many companies and institutions that replaced in their day the plastic straws for paper are Disney, Starbucks and Alaska Airlines. EFE
