Trump Plans Reverses Biden’s Initiative To Phase Out Plastic Straws

President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to undo former President Joe Biden‘s plan to phase out plastic straws by 2027.

Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social that paper straws “don’t work.”

Republicans and Democrats argued over straws last summer when Biden’s administration announced the federal government would phase out single-use plastics in its buildings.

The debate is the cause of a more significant issue surrounding whether the federal government should mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. More than 90 percent of plastic is made from fossil fuels and when they are incinerated, it releases large amounts of carbon dioxide contributing to climate change.

The mass global plastic production has been a target of climate activists looking to reduce pollution and carbon emissions.

“Tackling plastic pollution and its associated impacts will require unprecedented action at every stage of the plastic lifecycle,” wrote Brenda Mallory, the former chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and Ali Zaidi the former White House national climate adviser at the time the ban was introduced.