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.
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.
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.
What the actual F$&k!
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.
It is a shame people cannot do the right thing without a rule to do the right thing
It feels like it’s out of spite.
Deplorable
They will all be drinking out of plastic bottles with paper straws.
Ugh!
Fabulous, what could possibly go wrong?
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It’s just 1 dick-move after another. 😡
I guess the Petroleum industry has spoken.:-(
Seems like there should be a way to collect them and dump them all on the golf course at mar-a-lago.
Well that’s an impressively bad decision.
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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
Right?
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
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That is it right there.
I hope their grandkids will want to know why.
I hope they don't reproduce.
Petroleum lobbies 🤬
Disgusting
I hope visitors will take this into account and make sure to reduce their use.
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Upside down world.
Thats the best you can say, 🤔 how about white people killing the planet
It’s not the best I can say, it’s merely a comment.
Horrible...such bullshit
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Gag.
I guess bad for the petroleum industry to ban single use plastics...
Such a mistake….
I hate these mfers
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Hmmmm, could this because the petro-chemical industry is intrinsic to the manufacture of plastics? I think we always need to follow the money...
Wtf?!?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. They are like dogs biting their own tails.
America is under attack from within by hostile domestic forces.
Domestic terrorists to be precise.
I won't disagree with that description, not all weapons are bombs and bullets.
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Why would they do that??
Ever time i get a piece of news like this, I feel like I need a little refrain i can sing about how much I hate them
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WHO does this benefit??
“Owning the libs”
Helped their sales of souvenir refillable water bottles! I have my Grand Canyon one! Dumb move!
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This is just spite...
White male jobs and ecology are natural enemies. I don’t make the rules.
Horrendous idea.
Great, more trash, more personnel needed to manage the trash, but no budget with which to manage the self-induced problem. Stupid
Completely nuts. TF is wrong with MAGAts?
It's a d3ath cult and they thoroughly enjoy k1[[1ng. K1[[1ng the Earth, the oceans, healthy alliances, democracy, and above all...People.
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’re in bed with the petroleum industry is what’s wrong. 🤬
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.
They want everyone to be as miserable as they are
Precisely.
Selling plastic makes oil companies richer, so naturally Jim Bob votes for their interests over his
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Next, they will franchise McD's in visitor centers.
Don't give them any ideas!!
Right. It’s more manly to pollute our national parks. 🙄
Next, they'll decree forest fires be battled by dropping plastic straws to smother them
This is just flat out pettiness. There is NO valid reason.
Oil makes plastic. Oil barons run the country.
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!
😞 how much more, that those of us who care about our mother Earth, take? 😡
Update on last-min changes to MegaBill regarding public lands: authorizes sale of approx. 11,000 acres n [Utah & hundreds of thousands more in Nevada' See more on the update. 5calls.org/issue/public...
They have to have something to trade for the plane
Plastic is FOREVER.
Good grief.
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.
Of course they are…
The plastic companies lobby just as much as the auto companies. Plastic is as deeply ingrained in American society as reliance on cars is.
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That is not a bad idea.
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Of course they are 🤪
Fuckers
Good move. Means more work for chain gangs.
why do they hate nature
So petty. It's like Mordor run by Grandgrind instead of Sauron.
The plan is to replace all the parks with plastic replicas.
Because they just have to keep doing shitty things. Over, and over, and over again 🤬🤬
This is horrible! How many ways can people find to say they don't care about our national parks , our country, for our environment in general?
Make American great by polluting and killing us with Plastic
Maybe they could charge the same price for a single use bottle of water as a refillable water bottle.
I'm pro water fountain.
They would. They probably put up signs telling people to just throw their reusables in the lakes too. This country is imploding.
MAFA Make America Filthy Again
Of course this makes perfect nonsense in this MAGA world..
Today we are getting bombarded with bad news from FOTUS (Felon Of The US) and his Cabinet!
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Which corporations benefit from the continued use of disposable plastic bottles?
Just check to see which companies Congress members bought stock in yesterday.
Good point
Yay for garbage and destruction!! 😒
They’re hell bent on destruction.
Because conservatives really hate conserving the fucking planet...morons.
Plastic bottles and bags are completely banned in Kenya and Tanzania. They know what it does to their wildlife and environment.
They don't care. They will open the parks for mass hunting, eradicate the wildlife and then sell the land.
Oh God let's stop this
Brain dead criminals. Every single one of them.
Why, just why?
Weird!
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.
Just RUBBING it in peoples faces...
As microplastic are becoming an actual problem. Idiots.
Of course they are. No chance to "own the libs" can be passed on by this administration; no issue is too small, no action is too petty.
Next they’ll be ordering lead back into gasoline and paint.
Dammit. What an easy and sensible change that would have such an impact
More plastic litter in our parks to be picked up by nobody because they fired them all.
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This Administration is killing America.
FFS.
::sigh::
I cannot tell you how much I detest these people and their determination to destroy this physically beautiful planet.
SAME!!!🤬
Because of course they are. These people just don't give a sh!t about America, the people, the environment, the future. Fk them all.
I voted for her.
Good idea,the national parks no longer have enough people to pick all the discarded empties,now so a few extra won't matter.😜
A win for Pepsi
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? 🤔
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Thus regime is trying to kill us 😡
Well of course they are 🤬
Because destroying the environment -- and the whole goddamn planet -- is their plan.
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.
This sucks !!!
If it helps the planet or humans they're forcefully against it. Is it just out of spite?
Of course they are, and outlawing paper straws. Morons.
So fucking petty.
Of course
So now they’re just being destructive
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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.
Of course. That ensures employment for the 14 year old plastic wranglers.
How many volunteers does it take to clean up after MAGA park visitors?
Gah! Why do they hate everything good and right in this world?!
Oh, and put out plastic straws without wrappers. You’ll never have to refill. But still comply.
The parks should then charge an exorbitant amount for plastic water and sell branded reusables at a competitive price.
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
Great idea
An ideology completely run on hate, cruelty, and destruction.
So the interior dept is now a bunch of assholes..
Another cave to the oil and plastic giants. Shameful and very short sighted.
But of course, because "pro-life" and all.
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.
Genuine question: if the entirety of national parks was managed by virtuous people, would this rescission be worthless? 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
They don’t sell or use plastics except maybe the trash can liners. I would like to keep it that way.
You can never buy spring water in any place that’s corporatized. It’s always Dasani. Why? PepsiCo. They’ll be selling Dasani at the parks-mark my word
The NPS contracts with concessioners, who may, or may not, be “virtuous”. www.nps.gov/subjects/con...
"Take only profits, leave only plastic."
Also, visitors will be given a free bag of plastic straws on entering the park.
Jesus H Christ. I guess reducing plastic pollution is too woke for these assholes
Trump is a dirty scum bag.
Should have been phased out 30 years ago
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.
So sad these "patriots" can't see that our country is being destroyed. 47 is walking all over the constitution and it's a disgrace. Maga are so brainwashed they would do anything without question, no matter how un American and racist intent. Pitiful.
Fired the only Plumber for all Rainier National Park!? 2 million visitors per year . Maybe a shitty year for the National Parks! Wtf 🤬
If only glass makers had lobbyists like plastic/oil corporations!
This feels spiteful.
They must be getting PAC money/ own stock.
He’s already ordered clear cutting of natl forests. Natl parks won’t be far behind if they’re not stopped
There's no hell horrible enough for them. www.npca.org/articles/833...
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They fully plan with him to completely rape all public lands as well as sell them off to highest bidders.
Straight out of P2025
It’s just one reversal of good policy after another
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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.
Sadistic zombies
Our beautiful National Parks are under attack from within...the gutless cowards of the GOP can rot in hell
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Because, of course, we can't have plastic free parks I mean, however would the fossil fuel companies recover from the loss?
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!
Thus embracing the designation of this geologic age the Plasticine Era.
Gotta support their oil baron friends
Of course they did. Governing by toddler-like temper tantrums, contradiction and retribution. Not a functioning neuron among them.
Why do they want to ruin our country!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Because ….. America LOVES its garbage! Hell, we have ELECTED enough of it!
because of course they are. because they are clearly desperate to ensure we live in a dump.
Idiots
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How many billions did that save us? (sheesh) What a waste of time to seek out even the smallest things aimed at saving the planet.
Maybe paper drinking accessories are making a comeback? 🙄
So awful
You can sell them but we don’t have to buy them😊
This is so true! Thrift stores are loaded with those stainless steel water jugs.
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why? who profits? FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Some things are just to stick it to “woke libs.”
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.
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Bingo ! Thats exactly what @sarahkendzior.bsky.social said in her book - America is being sold out as parts
That too is a personal decision. You can decide to not buy the product.
The public has to be forced to do the right thing. Left on their own the world would be chaos.
They just *want* to kill the planet, don't they?
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.
No ideas please.
Not my idea, I read about it in Project 2025.
Keep your standards. Don't move backward.
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Degrade the lands any way possible.
Lord Howe Island is a 3-day sail east of Sydney. The Mutton Bird (aka shearwater) popn is shrinking bc health impacts of ingesting plastic from the Pacific Ocean. Reduce plastics wherever we can... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Republicans love pollution.
Fuck this, no more plastic anywhere.
It’s more and more and more bad news everyday—
Destruction and evil deeds around every corner with the #TrumpRegime
So very sad
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.
Make litter and pollution great again.
Oh for pity sake! 😡
Of course
Oil and gas are in charge now.
I never understood the obsession with shitting on our only home. Repukes are the fucking worst people.
Why!! Fucking why!??
I believe the agency is known as the Dept. of The Inferior
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Of course, a major priority.
249 years of staggering, incomplete progress to be rolled back in less than 6 months. Is it great yet?
Wonderful. We need more plastic debris in our national parks and forests.🙄🙄
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.
Litter-away, America! You’re only there for the selfies anyway.
Of course they are
They're going to sell off the public lands anyway. What's a few thousand plastic bottles compared to strip mining, fracking, and logging?
Of course they did🤬🤬☹️
When visiting a park, the No. 1 trash item you see is water bottles. It's sad to go backwards.
They are intentionally destroying our country but by bit
Why do they do things like this?!?! I will never understand.
The guy that rescinded the phase out of single use plastic needs to be tasked with rescinding all that plastic from the national parks...😡
Of course trump is!
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. This country is finished.
Seems so dumb! It is all dumb and frustrating!
And no more paper straws either, horrible hippy things that ruined my McDonalds!
Does anyone know why? Is there any rational reason for this or are reusable water bottles just to darn woke?
Of course they are 🤦🏼♀️
🥲. The plastic industry must have donated to the Grifter In Chief's retirement fund.
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.
At what point does NPS begin boycotting & close the National Parks?
On the plus side, they’ve fired everyone who would have sold them, right? Gallows humor, I know…
Um whoopie. Pick your battles folks.
For shame Interior Dept for creating trash in our parks!
The party of destruction, disease, death and disappointment is at it again.
So on brand.
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.
Assholes
And they fired anyone who would clean up the mess. It’s going to take decades if not centuries to clean up this mess.
Make littering great again!!!!! Every day it’s another assault on our planet. I hate this country and it’s fascist regime.
MAGA platform: More trash! More bigotry! More poverty! More sickness! More oppression!
This never ends. How will we rebuild?
Hopefully people who actually visit the parks will continue to be responsible and respectful.
the baltimore orioles are trying to comply to the original order: they sell bottles of water for $5.75 on hot summer nights when most water fountains don't work
Hard to believe this is still even questioned. Should be obvious.
I can’t even with this administration. 🤦🏻♀️
The Trump Scientific Board has determined that the best way to preserve national park land is to coat it all in plastic. Like a leftover Big Mac in Saran Wrap.
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.
All under umbrella of deregulation.
The carnage continues. I wonder which big brand beverage company got to Trump first?
It’s phase 1 of turning our NPS into the National Landfill System. What a bunch of jabronis.
Botox too? Or nay.
They hate Americans and America.
Soon we'll be teaching kids that it takes more energy to recycle bottles than just dropping it wherever you are.
An order that was only necessary because the last Trump administration allowed plastic bottles back in the parks after they’ve been banned
If they can't kill us directly, they will at least kill us over the long term. Republicans suck
#autogenocide
They're working on that first part too
That seems to be the plan.
It makes no sense.
Of course they are. 🙄
He just gets smarter and smarter huh ?
FFS
Fuckers
They'll probably remove all the trash cans and cancel waste removal next. To save money, of course...
Of course they are
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.
Isn't that sad. Europe uses cardboard.
That’s a bunch of BS! Why? Somebody in bed with the Plastic industry?
One of the best things I’ve seen is water bottle dispensing systems at water fountains. It makes filling your water bottle easier.
Wow. I'm not surprised, but I can't believe the utter stupidity of this entire administration. Every damn one of the Republicans.