The Last Plastic Straw

The Last Plastic Straw is a project of Plastic Pollution Coalition.  More than 500,000,000 plastic straws wielded each day in our country. Just in the recent twenty years, we have come to expect plastic straws in most every drink.  Just another illustration of extreme waste being introduced for a small token of convenience. These brief little devices are casually tossed into the waste abyss without a second thought, quickly becoming a source of plastic pollution. 

The Last Plastic Straw and Plastic Pollution Coalition are building momentum around a worldwide movement, so plastic straws become a relic of the past. In the short term, we work with our Coalition to encourage eateries to no longer automatically give plastic straws; we educate individuals to refuse plastic straws and spread the “straw free” message; and we work to change local regulation to stop this unnecessary plastic pollution.

In the long run, this collective engagement around the gateway issue of plastic straws will meaningfully shift the way individuals and businesses think about plastic pollution - and about our society’s disposable culture on a larger scale.