By Request Only

Our mission?  To eliminate plastic straws.   Completely and entirely, one straw at a time. Why?    Because one-use plastics are terrible for the environment.  Plastic kills marine life. How do we know this?   While in Chicago recently, we went to the Shedd Aquarium and learned a lot of facts.  For example, plastic does not biodegrade, it photo degrades into smaller pieces which marine animals eat.  Also, did you know that 300 million plastic straws are used per day?   Think about that for a minute.   We are starting our own campaign to turn down plastic straws in restaurants.  To encourage restaurants to hand out a straw by request only. There's been lots of research done on the topic of single-use plastics by many scientists, researchers and environmentalists.   Our mission is to educate others to be aware of this vast body of research, to reduce and even eliminate individual plastic straw ...