and businesses banning the use or automatic inclusion of plastic straws with beverages," reads the White House order. Those plastic straws were replaced with paper straws that the White House ...

President Donald Trump signed an order this week to phase out paper straws in federal agencies. Will Florida cities be ...

“BACK TO PLASTIC!” Trump wrote. “Paper straws don’t work ... Brenda Mallory, then-chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and Ali Zaidi, then-White House national ...

“This isn’t just a random petty issue picked by the president; it’s in response to normal people preferring plastic straws over paper,” a White House official said on the condition of ...

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. In 2015, video of a marine biologist pulling a plastic straw out of a turtle's nose sparked outrage worldwide ...

A somewhat misleading statistic that plastic straws account for a mere 0.025% ... press release has now been removed from the White House website). This was several years after the global movement ...