Plasticware Awareness

Aniya Crump, Justin Curcio, Baban Gill, Ellie Hunt, Khushi Kaur, Amine Nazih, Erin Tan and Zayn Yousuf are MHS students from the CCSR, a student based leadership organization. They have been working on a project to reduce the amount of plastic utensils used by recommending businesses to give plasticware out on a request only basis. This will help small businesses save money in addition to the reduction of plastic pollution and slow down environmental degradation. They conducted a survey with more than 270 people in the community. Through that survey, they found that nearly 70% of people rarely or never use plastic utensils. And that 85% would request to not revive plastic utensils if given the option to do so. The students hope to help the environment, and inspire other communities to do the same.