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Updated Tue, 11 February 2025 at 6:30 pm SGT
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STORY: :: Trump signs an executive order to encourage buying plastic drinking straws instead of paper alternatives
:: February 10, 2025
:: Washington D.C.
:: Donald Trump, US President
“We're going back to plastic straws. These things don't work. I've had it many times and on occasion they break, they explode. If something's hot, they don't last very long, like a matter of minutes. Sometimes in a matter of seconds. It's a ridiculous situation.”
“And I don't think that plastics are going to affect a shark very much as they're eating, as they're munching their way through the ocean. Okay.”
Monday's executive order was part of a broader weakening of environmental commitments by Trump, who in one of the first acts of his second term, removed the United States from the Paris climate agreement for the second time.
Trump signs order to encourage buying plastic straws
Reuters VideosUpdated Tue, 11 February 2025 at 6:30 pm SGT
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STORY: :: Trump signs an executive order to encourage buying plastic drinking straws instead of paper alternatives
:: February 10, 2025
:: Washington D.C.
:: Donald Trump, US President
“We're going back to plastic straws. These things don't work. I've had it many times and on occasion they break, they explode. If something's hot, they don't last very long, like a matter of minutes. Sometimes in a matter of seconds. It's a ridiculous situation.”
“And I don't think that plastics are going to affect a shark very much as they're eating, as they're munching their way through the ocean. Okay.”
Monday's executive order was part of a broader weakening of environmental commitments by Trump, who in one of the first acts of his second term, removed the United States from the Paris climate agreement for the second time.
