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After living on Crooked Island in the Bahamas in 2013, I saw firsthand the devastating plastic pollution issue our oceans are facing. Before I left the United States for this journey, I was aware how remote my location would be. I was open to the idea of only drinking rainwater, no TV, no radio, no cell phones, limited food supply, but I never expected to see the trash in this remote beautiful location. The windward (windward is the direction from which the wind is coming) side of the ocean was nicknamed by the native as "Garage Sale Beach." The native would drive to the beach and pick up reusable washed up items like buoys or buckets. Although this seems creative, it was so sad to see firsthand. I never know pollution was such an issues in our oceans outside of oil spills that cover the media, nor did I realize how bad floating plastic pollution was. All I know is I had to do something.
A year after I moved back from the Bahamas I started working at Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary run by NOAA. I am by training a graphic designer and was able to take on a role working on the communications team at the Sanctuary. It was at the TBNMS, surrounded by amazing educators, interns and exhibits that taught me about the effects on plastic pollution and the reality of climate change. It was there that I met two strong and brilliant women, Stephanie Gandulla and Meaghan Gass. Stephanie and Meaghan had started an organization called Plastics FLOAT. In addition, within that first year of me started working at NOAA, these women they took on the no plastic challenge. They would not using plastic for 1-year. Through their challenge, I learned about the issues of single use plastics in our day-to-day lives. Every time we went to go out to eat, there was an issue. Whether it was from leftover containers to even little plastic cups for dressing, but the one piece of single use plastic that Meaghan had this funny hatred for were plastic straws! She just hated them and they sucked!
Now mind you this was before the big movement of banning straws hit. This was just an educator dealing with the overwhelming access to use of plastic straws in her everyday life. This was the inspiration of my first environmental design. What started our as a tank top gift has turned into a vigorous campaign, #PlasticStrawsSuck.
