Name: Shelby O'Neil
Fighting: Plastic Straws, Coastal & Marine Pollution, and Ocean Plastics
How:
- Launching non-profit: Jr. Ocean Guardians
- Writing to Airlines
- Writing to CEOs of Companies that use plastic straws
- Hosting Beach Cleanups
- No Straw November Movement
- Giving Lectures
- Getting Senate to pass SCR139
From: California, USA
Age: 17 years old
Star millennial: Way back in 2017, 17-year-old Californian girl scout Shelby O'Neil wrote to airlines and their CEOs requesting them to use eco-friendly alternatives to plastic straws & other single-use plastics in their flight cutlery inventory - which adds up to 22 million plastic straws annually. She convinced Alaska Airlines to ditch straws and plastic fruit picks starting Summer 2018. It now used only marine-friendly straws.
Shelby has also launched Jr. Ocean Guardians through Girl Scouts USA whereby she gets school kids to do beach cleanup while raising awareness for alternatives to single-use plastics & give them up to keep the oceans plastic free. Here's hoping her actions inspire more people to convince companies to give up single-use plastics and that it spreads internationally.
See more at:
https://nowthisnews.com/videos/her/girl-scout-convinces-airline-to-replace-plastic-straws
https://womenintheworld.com/2018/06/22/how-a-17-year-old-got-the-attention-of-several-companies-and-convinced-them-to-make-a-big-change/
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