2019 Coastcare Award – QLD

Straw No More

Founded by then 9 year old Molly Steer in Cairns in 2017, the core model of Straw No More was to eliminate plastic straws in schools across Australia.

Since then the Strawbassador program has been launched to help empower young people around the nation to help spread Molly’s message about single-use plastic reduction. Collectively Strawbassadors have successfully worked with many schools, restaurants, cafes, events and other businesses to remove single use plastic straws from their operations. So far, a tally of all students and employees at businesses has seen individual pledges reach almost 900,000.