TERC talk at Lake Tahoe: The Last Straw

In advance of Earth Day, the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center will have a presentation on April 10 around the fact that 500 million straws used, and discarded, daily in the United States.

That is enough straws to wrap around the Earth's circumference 2.5 times a day.

South Lake Tahoe already has a ban going into effect in 2018. Join local students and become part of not only a local and regional movement, but also globally, to eliminate plastic drinking straws from our landfills, streams, oceans, and beaches. Students will host educational tables during happy hour from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. At 6:00 p.m., students will present on local programs to reduce single use plastic waste and host screenings of the short films "Straws" and "Everything Connects."

The event is being held at UC Davis Tahoe Science Center on the campus of Sierra Nevada College, 291 Country Club Drive (between Tahoe Boulevard/SR 28 and Lakeshore Blvd.) in Incline Village, Nevada. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. after the happy hour with refreshments.

Registration is required for the free event: http://tahoe.ucdavis.edu/events/

This collaborative event is hosted by local students together with IVGID Waste Not, Keep Truckee Green, League to Save Lake Tahoe, SOS Outreach, Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships, Tahoe Institute for Natural Science, and UC Davis TERC