The Interior Department is rescinding an order that would have phased out the sale of plastic water bottles and other single-use plastics in national parks and on public lands.
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Originally intended to curb pollution across the 480 million acres of federally managed land, the department has now reversed course and ordered all bans on plastic to be lifted.
to what practical benefit? Now we won't have park personnel to clean things up, and the plastics will be everywhere-- ugh No one is making money on the garbage.
WHY THE FUCK do they hate the environment SO MUCH. Maybe they just need to buy some stock in biodegradable plastics and then they’d want to keep the bans
It makes NO SENSE. Although if their goal is just to support the opposite of everything the “libs” support, then I guess it does make sense. Fucking Fuckity fuck
with everything we have going on in the country right now. . and the problems we have. . this isn't that important. hate to say it. . but tourists trash every place they go. . doesn't matter what we do or don't sell in the parks. they trash everything equally as bad.
They've gotten to the point where they just directly do the opposite of whatever Democrats have done, regardless of value or utility or self harm.
"Owning the libs" is the entire platform.
They aren't worried about litter. When they start mining and mass logging in the national parks some water bottles are going to seem a bit insignificant.
Fun fact. USGS hydrologists were the first to discover micro plastics in rain several years ago. They weren’t looking for them. It was a surprise find. But sure. More plastic. DONT BUY PLASTIC bottles in national parks!
It’s almost as if they want to destroy the fucking planet. Actually not “almost”. That’s what they want to do, because not putting more plastic into our environment would be a nice thing to do, and they’re monsters. Saw a beach like this one in Turks and Caicos.
I was driving through Arches when a car coming the other way reached an arm out the window and tossed a plastic bottle aside the road. Was livid. Alt Park Service - what should i have done? Yes i fetched it.
Wait, what? They're reversing the plan to ban plastic water bottles in national parks? That's like, a beach party for pollution! 🤯 Can someone explain why they'd want to do that? 🤔
We don't have to abide by 🍊💩's stupid decree. The majority of Americans support phasing out plastics in all national parks.
Just ignore & continue supporting mother nature & other voiceless who cannot represent themselves. Corporate selfish greed for more plastics, demand increase oil etc. Ban it.
The less beautiful and taken care of, the easier it will be to try and buy that land away for cheap. Every time they do something to attack parks it's the same garbage. Protect our beautiful lands everyone! Bring extra trash bags when you walk or camp. We can do this 🌲💕
OF COURSE they are. This admin doesn't give a damn about anything or anyone except doing whatever it takes to hold on to power. I'm still very upset at @gallego.senate.gov and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social for their confirmation votes. Disgusting.
I was in the gift shop at Zion within the past hour. Many reusable bottle options, many designs. Prices reasonable for the location. Free refilling stations plentiful around park.
Double down on it and whoever is doing the thirst trip tiktoks for the parks should do bottle designs and find a way to get liquid death in on it cause they seem chill like that
Bei uns (in Deutschland) muss seit Jahren Pfand auch auf Plastikflaschen bezahlt werden. Zwar wird immer noch viel von diesem Zeug gekauft, aber es liegt weniger in der Gegend rum.
Könntet ihr nicht - oh! Ich vergaß für einen Moment, dass ihr bei euch einen 🟠🤡 habt - sorry!
many states do have bottle deposits. Doesn't stop ppl from discarding, but others pick up the bottles for cash. It's been awhile since I've been out West, but I was disappointed in the lack of recycling bins. Hopefully better now, but even then there were water refill stations at the parks.
For the life of me, I cannot fathom why Trump's fascist administration is zealously TRYING to destroy our national parks and pollute the nation. Even racist autocrats should want a clean environment.
Secretary of Interior must be getting a huge kickback from the bottled water industry. All these so called “patriots” don’t love their country at all. They willingly do harm every day.
WHY??? That order seemed to be working! People could bring in the plastic bottles, they just weren’t sold in the parks or on PUBLIC land! Disney doesn’t sell gum in their parks, no one protects! Plastic doesn’t decompose! Keep this ban on selling plastic bottles in our parks!
I wish they could understand, that they are missing the point, these lucrative actions are destroying our country. Destroying USA. Every value. Virtue that made us great in the first place. Being un-wound by this corrupt administration. Shameful.
They dont care. That's it.
They're treating the country like a purposefully failed business that can be liquidated and sold for parts to the highest bidder. It's disgraceful.
The most shocking part of this statement is that the Republicans aren’t turning all the national parks and public lands into oil fields and strip mines.
republicans favor plastic straws and bottles littering every available space because that’s just a business opportunity for someone related to one of their members of Congress.
They won’t be in there much longer.
Then we can start the mop up.
So we can get the stench out of Washington.
Well, you know, they have to support their petroleum buddies and be as wasteful as they possibly can while they're at it. Just one more thing in the listnthat would already wrap at least 3 times aroundnthe world.
I have never seen a group of people more determined to always do the obviously absolute wrong thing every single time. The current regime is impressively amoral.
Of course they are. Because there will be no national parks, they'll all be sold for development, drilling and logging, so no single-user plastics won't be an issue in the future. And in the meantime, trash our national treasures at will.
I heard there's an executive order granting anyone leaving empty Vienna Sausage and/or Spam cans in their wake a special Patriot award. And super patriots who also leave a couple SlimJim wrappers behind - their commemorative plaque will be signed by the president. Just pay an additional $447.47 fee.
There's no other way to say it ... this is the deliberate trashing and kneecapping of this country. It's beyond the obvious destruction that will happen to our national parks which are treasures. It's to the very foundation the US stood for just a few months ago that made us the envy of the world.
Corporate lobbyists promised that plastics are recyclable. They lied.
Hold them to account. In full.
Arrest, try & convict ALL plastics manufacturer board members/lobbyists. Send them out on chain gangs to pick it all up & live with it until they do what they promised.
At their personal expense.
Well yeah, because you can never have too many discarded plastic water bottles on the pristine hiking trail in a national park you had to make a reservation for to get the privilege of hiking it.
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FUCK OFF.
Then keep fucking off.
Keep fucking off until you get to a gate with a sign saying "You Can't Fuck Off Past Here".
Climb the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.
I don’t make the rules.
K1[[1ng the Earth, the oceans, healthy alliances, democracy, and above all...People.
"Owning the libs" is the entire platform.
authorizes sale of approx. 11,000 acres n [Utah & hundreds of thousands more in Nevada' See more on the update. https://5calls.org/issue/public-land-sales-budget-reconcilliation/
No chance to "own the libs" can be passed on by this administration; no issue is too small, no action is too petty.
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Just ignore & continue supporting mother nature & other voiceless who cannot represent themselves. Corporate selfish greed for more plastics, demand increase oil etc. Ban it.
Könntet ihr nicht - oh! Ich vergaß für einen Moment, dass ihr bei euch einen 🟠🤡 habt - sorry!
Like theoretically parks can choose to still mot buy plastics, they just likely won't.
Only saying this as a reminder that prescriptive laws are BS and should be ignored
Maga are so brainwashed they would do anything without question, no matter how un American and racist intent. Pitiful.
https://www.npca.org/articles/8330-trump-s-disastrous-first-100-days-for-national-parks
it's up to us, the people to help educate and do what's best without help from this vile administration. #climatejustice
They're treating the country like a purposefully failed business that can be liquidated and sold for parts to the highest bidder. It's disgraceful.
The Mutton Bird (aka shearwater) popn is shrinking bc health impacts of ingesting plastic from the Pacific Ocean.
Reduce plastics wherever we can...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-12/scientists-link-plastic-consumption-to-organ-failure-in-birds/104954898
They won’t be in there much longer.
Then we can start the mop up.
So we can get the stench out of Washington.
Repukes are the fucking worst people.
This country is finished.
Gallows humor, I know…
More trash!
More bigotry!
More poverty!
More sickness!
More oppression!
Like a leftover Big Mac in Saran Wrap.
Hold them to account. In full.
Arrest, try & convict ALL plastics manufacturer board members/lobbyists. Send them out on chain gangs to pick it all up & live with it until they do what they promised.
At their personal expense.
What a bunch of jabronis.
Republicans suck
It makes filling your water bottle easier.