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Plastic straw makers celebrate 'happiest days' after Trump order

12-02-2025 01:45 PM


Ammon News - It's hard to imagine anyone listening to Donald Trump announcing his new policy on straws with a greater sense of glee than Ross Boyajian, the president of a business manufacturing plastic straws in Glendale, California.

Mr Boyajian, an Armenian-American, has owned Diamond Straws since 1995. His factory produces more than 800 straws a minute, supplying large US cafes and restaurants, including Peet's Coffee and BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse.

Diamond Straws currently employs 15 people but is anticipating an uptick in business in the wake of President Trump's executive order declaring that the US is "going back to plastic straws" and moving away from paper straws.

"It was one of our happiest days when I heard him say that," says Mr Boyajian. "Our whole business completely switched. Previously everybody was worrying about 'what are you doing in this business, you're going to be out of business because nobody is buying plastic straws'. So thank you, Trump."

Cardboard boxes emblazoned with "made in USA" are stacked around the factory. It is just one of a handful of factories remaining in the US manufacturing plastic straws after much of the industry moved abroad to China.

Mr Trump has repeatedly railed against paper straws. His 2019 reelection campaign sold Trump-branded reusable plastic straws. His executive order will reverse a Biden administration policy to phase out government purchases of plastic straws, as well as plastic cutlery and packaging by 2027. Sky News




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