Eleven-year-old Milo Cress is getting ready for his first international speaking tour. He’s had too many invitations from a global fan base to turn down.
The Longmont boy’s cause rallied so many people at the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability conference in June that he now has the funding he needs to make the trip — accompanied by his mother, of course. What has people in South Korea, Australia and Canada so excited about Milo? It’s his campaign calling on restaurants to offer plastic straws when serving drinks, rather than serve them automatically.
Milo picked plastic straws because over a lifetime the average American is said to use nearly 40,000 straws — and, Milo points out when he speaks in public, that doesn’t include the little straws that come attached to juice boxes.
“The goal is to reduce the use and waste of plastic straws that go into our landfill, and to encourage restaurants to adopt an offer-first policy, where the servers offer straws instead of putting one in every drink automatically,” Milo said.
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