Strawless Summer

Strawless Summer was a slamming success.

During Summer of 2018, Surfrider Foundation’s Eastern Long Island chapter joined the worldwide movement to make plastic straws an item of the past. At one beach cleanup in Greenport, the Eastern Long Island Chapter removed 922 straws from the beach. If you are not convinced that straws can cause harm in the marine environment, watch this video of a sea turtle with a straw in its nose. 

The goal of this program was to reduce the number of plastic straws used in restaurants in Eastern Long Island. 

Thanks to our partners, Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, and Group for the East End, and later, Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn this program was a slamming success that led to a ban on plastic straws altogether in Suffolk County as of Earth Day, 2019. Read more here.

Thanks to the Suffolk County Law banning plastic straws, Surfrider Foundation Eastern Long Island will no longer be promoting a Strawless Summer.

RESTAURANTS PLEDGED TO: 

1. 1. Go completely Strawless

1. Provide biodegradable (paper, bamboo) straws only upon request     OR
2. Provide reusable alternatives to plastic (stainless steel)

PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS:

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Here is a complete list of all participants:

Restaurants:

1. Provisions
2. Left Hand Coffee
3. Left Hand Coffee & Bakery
4. The Montauk Beach House
5. Canal Cafe
6. Long Island Aquarium
7. Almond
8. Westlake Fish House
9. Pierre’s
10. Pierre’s Market
11. Dockside Bar & Grill
12. Little Creek Oyster Farm & Market
13. Oaklands Restaurant and Marina
14. Page at 63 Main
15. The Surf Lodge
16. Mambo Kitchen
17. Bell & Anchor
18. Little Red
19. Sundays On The Bay
20. Peconic Cellar Door
21. Claude’s
22. Bay Kitchen Bar
23. Tutto Il Giorno
24. Southampton Publick House
25. C’est Cheese
26. RUMBA Inspired Island Cuisine & Rum Bar
27. Calissa
28. Topping Rose House
29. Good Libations Food Truck
30. Coopers Beach Concession
31. The Purple Elephant
32. Coopers Beach Concession
33. Nicky’s on the Bay
34. La Sirena Food Wagon
35. Food & Co Catering
36. Hooked
37. Amber Waves Farm
38. Crazy Beans
39. The Preston House & Hotel
40. Seaside Grill
41. Pentimento
42. Grindstone Coffee & Donuts
43. Sen Japanese Restaurant
44. Lulu Kitchen & Bar
45. Hamptons Coffee Company – Water Mill
46. Hamptons Coffee Company – Southampton
47. Hamptons Coffee Company – Westhampton Beach
48. Hamptons Coffee Company – Aquebogue
49. Post Office Cafe
50. Hatch
51. Southside Restaurant
52. Mirabelle
53. Maxwell’s
54. Lulu Kitchen & Bar
55. Sen Japanese Restaurant
56. Finnegans
57. View Restaurant

Schools & Camps:

58.  Hampton Bays Middle School

59.  Hampton Bays High School

58.  Southampton Fresh Air Home

RESTAURANTS, WHAT WE PROMISED:

By participating in the 2018 Strawless Summer, your business will be aligned with the Surfrider brand. Right when your restaurant signs up to participate in the Strawless Summer, we will give you a window decal, take a photo with the owner or manager to be posted on social media.

• Website & Social Media: We plan to use our reach to promote your restaurant to our followers. Your restaurant will be placed on the interactive map on our website, which will link directly to your website & menu. 
• Window Decal: Surfrider will provide you with a peel-off window decal that states you are participating in the 2018 Strawless Summer, and if desired, we will also provide you with literature to answer questions for
• Local Media:  Additional articles and press releases about the Strawless Summer 2018 participants will be completed as time and availability allow.
• Chapter Loyalty: Our chapter is always looking for places to host meetings and events, so restaurants who are making strides towards preventing plastic pollution on our fragile coast line will always be given priority. 

VOLUNTEERS,  “Volunteer Resources”

The success of this movement depends on help from volunteers. We need people like YOU to help the Chapter get restaurants to pledge and participate in Strawless Summer. Visit the “Volunteer Resources” folder above for everything needed to get a restaurant to pledge. When going about your day-to-day remember to remind your server,  “No straw, Please!” You can also  Sign this Petition asking East End restaurant supplier to provide alternatives to plastic straws.

IN THE PRESS:

• News 12 “Go Green: 3 steps to a cleaner beach”
• Hamptons.com “Surfrider Foundation Championing A “Strawless Summer” In The Hamptons”
• East Hampton Star “Surfrider to Launch ‘Strawless Summer'”, “Waging a War on Straws”
• The Independent “Stoked for a Strawless Summer”
• Sag Harbor Express “Surfrider’s ‘Strawless Summer’ Campaign Picks Up Momentum”
• Southampton Press “Local Restaurants Ditch Plastic Straws As Part Of Surfrider Foundation Campaign”
• Hamptons.com “Strawless Summer Continues With East End “Straws” Screenings”
• Avenue Magazine “Endless Summer”
• Port Jefferson Patch “C’est-ing No To Single-Use Plastic Straws”

Press about Strawless Suffolk:

• News 12 Long Island: “Suffolk effort aims to draw straws out of circulation”
• Port Jefferson Patch: “A Push in Suffolk to Declare Independence from Plastic Straws”
• CBS New York: “Long Island Looks To End Plastic Straw Use”
• WCBS News Radio 880: “Call For Limits On Plastic Straws In Suffolk”
• View full press conference here, courtesy of News 12 Long Island “Suffolk officials announce new strawless campaign”
• Suffolk Times “County Introduces ‘Strawless Suffolk’ initiative”

ON SOCIAL MEDIA: