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How mindless volumes of plastic waste inspired marine biologist Nicole Nash to create the campaign, Last Straw on the Great Barrier Reef, in an attempt to ban plastic straws from commercial boats operating on the Great Barrier Reef.

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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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