Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
A determined 17-year-old girl is proving that you’re never too young to make a difference and change the world for the better.
Shelby O’Neil is a young environmentalist who has written a dozen letters to company CEOs, urging them to stop using wasteful single-use plastic utensils – and a lot of them have listened to her.
After seeing California healthcare company Dignity Health run a commercial advertisement depicting people using plastic straws, Shelby wrote an email to the CEO explaining the dangers of wasteful plastics and why they should be eliminated.
The personal aspect of the email struck a chord with the company execs and they proceeded to drastically reduce their plastic usage. According to Mary Ellen Leciejewski, the vice president of corporate responsibility, the company has gone from using 8 million straws, plastic lids, and stirrers per year to 4 million. The utensils are now solely made available to patients in their 39-hospital system, rather than to visitors or cafeteria patrons, although the company says it is investigating using biodegradable alternatives.
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