REGION — From now until Earth Day, April 22, the Surfrider Foundation San Diego Chapter is hosting the launch of a no-plastic-straws campaign.
The Surfrider Foundation’s Rise Above Plastics & Ocean Friendly Restaurants program are moving to pass an ordinance mandating “straws by request only” and eventually a “plastic straw ban” in service establishments.
The group is calling consumers to take the No Straw pledge at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNfxZjrytBA8tLyLZy12wdGONfiXnMT6ple3MZOP9Q_XiRcQ/viewform and enroll organization’s service establishments to only offer straws by request or better yet, only offer paper straws if at all.
Current Ocean Friendly Restaurants will take the pledge to offer straws by request only and remove plastic straws from their restaurant. Surfrider has negotiated 50 percent off paper straws, which equalizes the cost of plastic straws and paper.
New Ocean Friendly Restaurants will be registered into the program. The 2018 goal of total Ocean Friendly Restaurants is to have 200 strong ocean-friendly restaurants.
A movie screening of “Straws,” a documentary, will be held April at Bird’s Surf Shed, 1091 W. Morena Boulevard, San Diego, plus beer, music with a purpose and a panel discussion.
The program is in response to increased plastic waste on beaches and in oceans. Surfrider’s Rise Above Plastics & Ocean Friendly Restaurants programs will continue the policy campaign until either a “Straws Upon Request” ordinance or a “Plastic Straw Ban” is passed in the city of San Diego
Straws are single use plastic made from petroleum and 500 million straws are used every day in the U.S. Straw recycling is unavailable but straws are one of the most common items found during beach cleanups.
For more information, visit http://surfridersd.org/ or [email protected].
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Haven’t used a straw since I was a kid. How about all the plastic coffee containers and soda cup lids, fast food packaging, styro containers, and especially plastic water bottles? Appeal to Starbucks to promote ceramic cups and bring your own reusables. Applies to water as well. Businesses, schools and churches should ask people to do the same. Unbelievable how we consume and waste and abuse the earth! As a conservationist Christian conservative, I say we need to do so much more than avoid plastic straws.
Does anyone know of a way to avoid berry box plastic? I hope people are wising-up to the fact that recycling is more often a euphemism for landfilling or exporting our garbage to a third world country dump. Plastic is so cheap that melting it down and remaking it rarely happens.
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