in a social media post over the weekend. While plastic straws have been blamed for polluting oceans and harming marine life, Trump said Monday that he thinks "it's OK” to continue using them.

In the weeks the straws were submerged in the tanks, the CDA, PHA, and paper straws degraded by up to 50%, projecting environmental lifetimes of 10-20 months in the coastal ocean.

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in a social media post over the weekend. While plastic straws have been blamed for polluting oceans and harming marine life, Trump said Monday that he thinks “it’s okay” to continue using them.

Trump said he thinks “it’s OK” to continue using plastic straws, although they’ve have been blamed for polluting oceans and harming marine life. In 2015, video of a marine biologist ...