Nonprofit Directory / Central Valley

Straws Film

STRAWS is an award-winning 30-minute documentary film by Linda Booker that highlights the devastating levels of non-recyclable straws and other plastic pollution in our waterways and oceans. In addition to entertaining, the film inspires immediate action by illustrating how individuals, groups and business owners around the globe are reducing single-use plastic through their individual actions, education, outreach, environmental stewardship and policy change. The documentary includes interviews with Jackie Nunez, founder of The Last Plastic Straw, restaurant owners with "Straws by Request Only" policies, renown marine biologist and author Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, researcher Dr. Jenna Jambeck and Drifters Project artist Pam Longobardi. On location in Costa Rica, Turtle researchers Nathan Robinson and Christine Figgener, PhD student, Texas A&M University, tell the story of the rescued sea turtle with a plastic straw in its nostril that went viral in 2015. That story inspired middle school age student Max Machum to start #NoStrawChallenge #SinPajillaPorFavor and shows how a person of any age can join a movement around the world to make a sea of change, one plastic straw at a tim.

Half Moon Bay, CA 1% for the Planet

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