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“In late March, the White House released a 36-page national strategy document further outlining an executive order President Donald Trump signed in February which ended the federal procurement and provision of paper straws.
‘They are bad for the environment, they are unhygienic, they are expensive, they contain dangerous forever chemicals, and — as with most things advanced by the previous Administration — they do not work,’ said the president in the document published on March 28, 2025.
The plastics industry welcomed the policy reversing the Biden Administration’s plan to phase out all single-use plastics across the federal government.” …