Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws
Signed February 10, 2025·Donald Trump·90 FR 9585
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Sets a policy to end federal use of paper straws. Directs the heads of executive departments and agencies to stop procuring paper straws and to ensure they are no longer provided in agency buildings, and to eliminate internal policies that disfavored plastic straws under a prior Biden administration order that had already been revoked. Within 45 days, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, working with relevant agencies, must issue a National Strategy to End the Use of Paper Straws, covering elimination of executive branch policies disfavoring plastic straws, review of contract terms with entities such as states that ban or penalize plastic straw use, and other tools to carry out the policy nationwide. The order applies to federal agencies and notes it does not create enforceable legal rights and must be implemented consistent with existing law and available funding.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 14208 of February 10, 2025
Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Policy. An irrational campaign against
plastic straws has resulted in major cities, States,
and businesses banning the use or automatic inclusion
of plastic straws with beverages. Plastic straws are
often replaced by paper straws, which are
nonfunctional, use chemicals that may carry risks to
human health, are more expensive to produce than
plastic straws, and often force users to use multiple
straws. Additionally, paper straws sometimes come
individually wrapped in plastic, undermining the
environmental argument for their use.
It is therefore the policy of the United States to end
the use of paper straws.
Sec. 2. Purchases of Paper Straws by the Federal
Government. (a) The heads of executive departments and
agencies (agencies) shall take all appropriate action
to eliminate the procurement of paper straws and
otherwise ensure that paper straws are no longer
provided within agency buildings.
(b) Agencies shall take appropriate action to
eliminate policies designed to disfavor plastic straws
issued to further Executive Order 14057 of December 8,
2021 (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs
Through Federal Sustainability), which I revoked on
January 20, 2025.
(c) Within 45 days of the date of this order, the
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, in
coordination with relevant agencies, shall issue a
National Strategy to End the Use of Paper Straws. This
strategy shall address:
(i) The elimination of all policies within the executive branch designed to
disfavor plastic straws;
(ii) Contract policies and terms with entities, including States, that ban
or penalize plastic straw purchase or use; and
(iii) All other available tools to achieve the policy of this order
nationwide.
Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the
head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 10, 2025.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed February 10, 2025. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.