Salt Lake City restaurants, bars and other businesses are being asked to stop handing out plastic straws as part of the Strawless in SLC campaign.
“In the next month, our goal is to get at least 50 restaurants on board,“ said volunteer organizer Laura Bellefontaine, who is spearheading the effort for SLC Air Protectors and a coalition of other health and environmental groups.
It’s a move that could keep 250,000 plastic straws from going into the landfills before Earth Day on April 22, she said.
Organizers also are asking diners to sign a petition ”to show local restaurants that there is public demand” for such a change.