It has been over a week since US President Donald Trump reversed course on a Biden administration environmental initiative that had eliminated single-use plastics like straws in federal buildings.
Aftering signing the executive order, mR Trump said: "I don't think plastic is going to affect a shark much as they’re munching their way through the ocean."
The move seemed to have been prompted by his dislike for paper straws which he said "explode" when he tried to use them.
For environmentalists and waste experts in Ireland, it is not about paper versus plastic.
It is about reducing the amount of single-use plastics leaking into our environment, harming wildlife and adding to the rise in microplastics.
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