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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/celebrate-national-skip-the-stra
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SUMMARY:Celebrate National Skip the Straw Day with UCRRA!
DESCRIPTION:\n\nWe’re celebrating National Skip the Straw Day with a free
  swag give-a-way! Stop by the UCRRA Main Office on Friday\, February 27th 
 to claim a free\, reusable\, stainless steel gift\, compliments of the Rec
 ycling Outreach Team. We’ll have bottles\, utensil kits\, and straws to 
 give away while supplies last. Limit 1 swag item per visitor. Grab a free 
 item\, browse our educational media in our front lobby and let us help you
  get one step closer to reducing single use disposable plastics.\n\nNo app
 ointment necessary – walk-ins welcome!\n\n\n\n\nNational Skip the Straw 
 Day is an event held the fourth Friday of every February to raise awarenes
 s about how many straws end up as litter and how these straws ultimately a
 ffect our environment. According to National Today\, Skip the Straw Day wa
 s created by a group of young activists in Whitehall\, Michigan in 2017. T
 he teenage activists called themselves “The Coral Keepers” and establi
 shed Skip the Straw Day in response to the state of plastic pollution on t
 he planet and the damaging effects of plastic waste on creatures in the wo
 rld’s largest oceans. \n\nLearn more about Ulster County’s Skip the 
 Straw Law here.  \n\n
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LOCATION:Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency\, 999 Flatbush Road\, Kings
 ton\, New York\, United States
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