Image taken from Wikipedia (Horia Varlan) under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. It seems that plastic straws and other single-use plastic products are on the comeback as of 2025 when President Trump signed an executive order to encourage the use of plastic straws by the federal government as well as the general public. As part of the answer to the President's comments, plastic straws are more of a concern compared to most other single-use plastic product