The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed on Monday an executive order that drives the return to the plastic straws to drink, stating that its impact on marine life is limited and that those of paper, favored by the environmentalists, ““ exploit ».
The order of the Republican Trump, announced last Friday, reverses an objective established by his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden to eliminate the single -use plastic utensils, such as straws, in all government agencies by 2035.
“We are going back to plastic straws,” Trump told reporters by signing the order in the oval office. «These things do not work, I have had them many times and, sometimes, they break, explode. If something is hot, they do not last long, as a matter of minutes, sometimes a matter of seconds. It’s a ridiculous situation, ”Trump said.
Ecologists have been campaigning for a long time to put an end to the use of straws and other plastic utensils, claiming that they contaminate above all the marine environment. But Trump, who for a long time bothering paper straws, rejected his concerns. “I don’t think plastic affects sharks while they eat, while they make their way in the ocean,” Trump said.
When presenting the document for Trump to sign it, the White House Secretary, Will Scharf, said the environmental impact was “totally debatable” and that US consumers were “tremendously dissatisfied with their straws.”
Trump, who has described the climate change as “scam”, has issued a series of orders on the environment since he returned to the White House for a second term. He withdrew from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change shortly after his inauguration on January 20 and has promised to “pierce, baby, pierce” in search of oil.
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