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Milo Cress

In 2011, when he was only 9 years old, Milo Cress started to convince restaurants to stop automatically bringing a straw with every drink. His project, Be Straw Free, not only focuses on restaurants but also motivates consumers to order their drinks without a straw whenever they don’t want or need to use one. Straws are items that in most cases are not needed, so not serving them is not only a cost saver for restaurants, but it also made customers more aware of plastic they use and eventually throw away.

Inspiring PeopleArlette DiederiksMarch 13, 2019Milo Cress, Be Straw Free, No more straws, plastic straws, offer first, upon request, plastic waste, oceans, microplastics, 500 million plastic straws, Ocean Collectiv, marine biologist, Kara Lavender Law, Sea Education Association, Single-use plasticsComment

Anne Marieke Eveleens, Saskia Studer and Francis Zoet

Anne Marieke Eveleens, Saskia Studer and Francis Zoet (who became friends teaching sailing classes at the same sailing school) were continuously confronted with plastic debris while on the water. They wanted to come up with a solution to stop plastic from entering the oceans without blocking the continuous ship traffic or fish migration. The solutions that already existed only caught floating debris while a huge part of waste travels lower.