Plastic is choking our oceans

More than 500,000,000 straws are used once and tossed every day in this country. Ocean Conservancy ranks plastic straws as the number five most commonly found item on beaches. Straws are not recycled, so they wind up in landfills, litter streets, wash into streams and add to the estimated 8.5 million metric tons of plastic debris in oceans annually.

“Single use plastics that find their way onto our streets get washed through storm drains into local creeks and all the way to the ocean,” says former Mayor Steve Schewel. “Plastic litter is a roadside eyesore, and it also can be fatal to river and ocean animals.”

You can help: TAKE THE PLEDGE!

We ask you as an individual or as a business to pledge to significantly reduce your use of plastic straws and only serve straws by request. So many of us use straws as routine simply because we are handed them. There are so many alternatives, like drinking from a cup or using a paper or metal straw. 

Pledge as an individual or business below!



Special thanks to the following businesses that have already taken the pledge!

  • Pompieri Pizza

  • Bull City Burger & Brewery

  • Bull McCabe's Irish Pub

  • The Cotton Room

  • Eno River Association

  • DoubleTree by Hilton's Mansion on the Hill

  • Cocoa Cinnamon

  • 140 Salon and Blow Dry Bar

  • Lionstone Realty LLC Powered by eXp Realty

  • Pie Pushers

  • Burt's Bees

  • The Merry Franksters

  • Hux Family Farm

  • Tyler’s Taproom

  • Elmo’s Diner