Straws: Sipping & Stirring Up A Major Eco Issue

Here are some interesting visual factoids about the hidden environmental impacts of something so simple that we all use with probably every fast food run we make: straws.

They look so friendly and inviting when they come to us at the restaurant, greeting us there in our soda on the table.  

And yet...

Linda Booker wants to do something about this straw situation that's in front of us.

Linda along with Blair Johnson, who also produced the documentary Bringing It Home: Industrial Hemp, Healthy Homes, and a Greener Future for America, are the masterminds behind this next eco-documentary-in-the-making.  They have developed a whole Kickstarter program to help fund this next documentary all about the perils of this slim little sippers.  Check out trailer and Kickstarter plee here for Straws: A Documentary Film for a Sea of Change:

STRAWS KICKSTARTER Video from Linda Booker on Vimeo.

If you are feeling the straw-impact after watching this, please donate to the film.

Here are other places to learn why you should take a stand against straws:

• The Last Plastic Straw, where you'll find a ton more resources of where to go to fight this mission.

• Be Straw Free campaign, started by 9 year old Milo Cress in 2011.

• One Green Planet: You Are What You Eat With: Why Saying Yes to Plastic Straws is a Big NO for the Planet

• Xanterra:  Choose to Be Straw Free

• To find companies where you can purchase reusable straws, check out The Last Plastic Straw's Alternatives page

Video from https://vimeo.com/17150610, US Consumption image from http://thelastplasticstraw.org/; 6 million stirs & straws image from http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/plastic-straws-and-the-environment/, Milo Cress video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flU66u9cStE, Infographic from http://tinarudolf.com/journal/dont-be-trashy