Trump pushes for use of plastic straws in US, defies global trend of countries imposing a ban

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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order reversing a Biden administration policy to replace plastic straws with paper.
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With Donald Trump announcing plans to bring back plastic straws because he doesn't like paper ones, attention has turned to the potential public health risks of the move.
Newsweek
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Straws might seem insignificant, inspiring jokes about the plastic vs. paper debate, but the plastic straw has come to symbolize a global pollution crisis over the past decade.
The Independent
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The new order backtracks on Biden administration's efforts to lower consumption of such plastics, which damage ecosystems and contaminate food supplies, as well as a policy to end the use of all single-use plastic products on federal lands by 2032.
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