To help decrease plastic straw use, the Student Green Energy Fund plans to provide free stainless steel straws to students. Courtesy of Flickr
By Brianna Rodriguez
After a local city ban of plastic straws, the conversation of adopting the practice on campus took place at a Student Green Energy Fund meeting.
Each semester, SGEF charges students $1 per credit hour in order to adopt a greener campus.
Providing straw kits to students is a SGEF goal for the fall semester. The total cost of the project is projected to be around $3,300, which will go toward 1,000 stainless steel straw kits.
The kits will come in a biodegradable bag with the SGEF logo on it. Each kit will have two stainless steel straws –– one bent and one straight .
SGEF plans to host an event soon to hand out the kits and ask students to sign a pledge to no longer use plastic straws.
