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The University of Tampa, in partnership with its dining services provider, Sodexo, has announced that dining facilities will no longer offer single-use plastic straws and stirrers.UT President Ronald Vaughn said UT and Sodexo chose to make the change due to the detrimental environmental impacts of plastic straws.“Especially being in Florida, on the bank of the Hillsborough River, we want to improve the health of our nearby waterways and oceans, and reduce our overall environmental impact,” Vaughn said. “Removing plastic straws and other plastic products helps with the much bigger sustainability issue.”Paper straws will be available upon request.UT and Sodexo join numerous other companies in going strawless, including Starbucks, Disney, Hyatt, Busch Gardens, and the Florida cities of Miami Beach, Fort Myers Beach and St. Petersburg.According to reports, Americans use 500 million straws every day, and by 2050, it’s projected there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish.The strawless initiative goes hand-in-hand with UT’s efforts to substantially reduce its use of other plastic products on campus:
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