00:00Once I graduated I drove all the way up here by myself and I studied for two
00:08years doing a master's. I also got a job as a marine biologist and cruise
00:13attendant and I saw so much single-use plastic getting blown overboard from
00:18people holding drinks up on the top deck of boats to carrying plastic bags that
00:23blew overboard and the amount of single-use plastics that these vessels
00:27use was just phenomenal. Every day we'd go through about 400 plastic teaspoons, about
00:33the same in ice cream cups, not to mention all the straws that went in every single
00:37drink.
00:41Growing up on the ballerine with fur seals I saw so many with fishing line wrapped
00:46around their necks. It really broke my heart and as soon as I was in primary
00:51school I was the waste wise captain. Every Australia day I did beach cleanups. I
00:57volunteered at the Marine Discovery Centre to educate children as well as
01:01visitors to the region and part of that was a big focus on plastics and then
01:07watching it every single day I worked out there of plastic buying overboard I
01:12basically said this is enough we've got to do something. Then I came up with the
01:16idea for the last straw on the Great Barrier Reef.
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