The Final Straw

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With the whole world finally recognising the madness of single-use plastic, in Greystones, it’s taken a group of schoolkids to bring that important eco message home.

It was whilst sitting in The Happy Pear that friends Luca and Donncha realised that this hand-standing, hummus-slurping eco warriors were still using plastic straws.

The complete and utter hippy swines.

The boys got onto the other boys, and the Flynns soon saw the error of their ways, and banned feck-off straws from their right-on eaterie.

It was a victory for Luca, Donncha and the rest of their Educate Together friends, but they knew that more work needed to be done. And so it was that the wittily-titled Greystones Doesn’t Suck campaign was born.

The aim is simple – get these dumbass plastic straws out of our town, and now.

Of course, it’ll be a mighty fine day when all single-use plastics are banned, but, finding a smart alternative for straws will have to do for now.

Having also organised a special screening for local businesses of the Linda Booker-directed, Tim Robbins-narrated 2017 documentary Straws at The Whale this Saturday afternoon, the Greystones Doesn’t Suck team are slowly getting more and more Greystones cafés, restaurants and shops to change their way of drinking. 

In the meantime, we caught up with Luca and Donncha up at their Blacklion school this afternoon, to find out just how it is that they’re going to save this beautiful planet of ours whilst getting their homework done on time.

You can find out how Greystones is tackling takeaway cups here, Lidl’s recent step in the right direction, and enjoy our March 2018 rant against single-use plastic here.