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ABOUT EXECUTIVE ORDER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP ABOUT PASTIC STRAWS :

The President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to bring back plastic straws. In the year of 2024, Biden ordered to end the use of plastic straws, plastic cutlery and packaging. However, President Donald Trump has conflicting views about it. His directive orders government agencies to halt buying paper straws. He said, “we are going back to plastic straws, ” Trump told to press reporters at the White House on Monday.

Trump believe that these things don’t work, I have had them but paper straws break and explode easily. If something’s hot, they don’t last very long. Paper tubes disgustingly dissolve in the mouth of consumers, sometimes in just a matter of seconds. This is quite ridiculous situation, ” Trump said. In 2020, during his campaign to be re-elected president. “Trump” branded plastic straws were sold at $15 for a pack of 10. Overall, the campaign reportedly sold plastic straws nearly $500,000 in the first week.

How plastic and paper straws are harmful ?

Study shows that paper straws contain significant amounts of “forever chemical” such as polyfluoroalkyl substances ( PFAS ). PFAS can contaminate water supplies and spread many health issues. Moreover, PFAS can stay in the environment for decades. In addition, plastic drinking straws are one of the major plastic waste in coastal zones and in oceans in the world. Most of them, can’t be recycled due to non-biodegradable material used in it. The bacteria or other natural decomposers can’t break it down. Furthermore, Due to beach littering and winds that blow the lightweight plastic material from the trash cans are particularly prone to ending up in waterways.

according to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, aquatic life is in danger of ingesting it. Because they never entirely decompose and these straws tend to break into ever-smaller particles. That release chemicals into the air, soil and water that can harm animals and the environment.

How plastic straws are made ?

There are many chemicals used in making plastic straws that are harmful for human being and environment too. Especially, phthalates, bisphenol A (BPA), and per- and polyfluoroalkyl elements (PFAS) chemicals are contained in plastic straws.

• Phthalates can cause asthma, cancer and also lead to many health conditions.
• Bisphenol A can cause cancer, impaired immune functions and other health problems.
• polyfluoroalkyl ( PFAS) can stay permanently in air, water and soil, that is why it is called forever chemical.

health and environmental impacts due to these toxic substances :

• They negatively impact to human body.
• these chemicals creates toxic industrial waste.
• A number of health diseases are associated with these chemicals as lever damage, kidney cancer, thyroid disease, testicle cancer.
• Also it increases cholesterol level, lower birth rate, and also lower response to vaccines.