For A Strawless Oceancreated by Lonely Whale
Individual Action

Here's What You Can Do

Three concrete actions you can take today to reduce single-use plastic straws and protect the ocean.

1. Accept the challenge to #StopSucking, then challenge someone else

Accept the challenge and post a photo, selfie, video, or one of our social media graphics to your favorite social platform. Use #StopSucking as a challenge to your friends, your favorite restaurant, or a celebrity to join the movement.

Join #StopSucking

2. Sign the Strawless Ocean pledge

Sign your name to our Strawless Ocean pledge and join the global movement. The pledge is a personal commitment to refuse single-use plastic straws and ask for marine-friendly alternatives where possible.

Take The Pledge

3. Support Strawless Ocean institutions & lobby new spaces to switch

See which bars, restaurants, venues, and arenas have taken the pledge to #StopSucking — then support their commitment and get others to join the program. Submit a restaurant or venue to our list via the Your Impact page.

Share your action

Once you've taken your action, share it on social media using #StopSucking and tag @LonelyWhale. Your participation helps spread the movement to new audiences.

The bigger picture: Individual action is the start, not the end. For more on how individual choices stack up against systemic change, read our piece on whether plastic straws really are 0.025% of ocean plastic — and what the wedge-issue strategy is actually trying to achieve.

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** A note from Lonely Whale on inclusivity: Lonely Whale's movement For A #StrawlessOcean recognizes and strongly advocates for the needs of our allies in the disability community who require a straw to drink. We are committed to working with our allies in the disability community, politics, and business to ensure that legislation is inclusive, to identify plastic straw alternatives that work for everyone, and to make these alternatives readily available at any establishment, city, or country that has banned the single-use plastic straw.