Biologist in Costa Rica sees 10-year anti-straw fight spotlighted after Trump order
The efforts to end disposable plastics will remain despite President Donald Trump’s recent endorsement of plastic straws, a marine conservation biologist based in Costa Rica said on Feb. 11, 2025 about the movement she contributed to raising 10 years ago. The German biologist Christine Figgener went viral in 2015 when she posted a video she filmed of her team removing a plastic straw lodged in a sea turtle’s nostril in the Costa Rican waters. Her testimony contributed to raising awareness of the need to ban single-use plastics to limit the harms inflicted on wildlife. Since then, many countries have passed such regulations including France in 2021 and India in 2022. Yet, a Trump order signed on Feb. 11 backtracking efforts to end the use of disposable plastic products on federal lands by 2032 has put the anti-plastic straw campaign in the spotlight again.
REUTERS / CHRISTINE FIGGENER HANDOUT
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