Plastic waste executive order

The trasher thinks of the environment as an enemy and yearn to trash it at every opportunity, even in small ways, to demonstrate his hate for it. He decided to encourage plastic pollution by canceling Biden's decision to gradually end use of plastic straws in the US government.

The trasher's campaign for plastic straws may seem to be a pointless frivolity, but the attitude he seeks to instill is broader and potentially deadly. The attitude consist of prioritizing short-term desires over long-term needs. People who approach questions this way can be manipulated into wasting their money.

That campaign turns the World War II slogan, "Use it up, wear it out, do without," on its head, applying it to the environment rather than to products such as straws.

If we use up and wear out the environment, humanity can't survive very long.

The reason so little plastic is recycled is only a few kinds of plastic are practically feasible to recycle. Several other kinds are recyclable in principle, but it is too expensive so so that never happens. Plastic industry PR fooled the public about this by getting the "recycle" symbol put on those other kinds, so people imagine they will be recycled.