Marriott Phasing Out Plastic Straws

By Renee Fonner Jul 19, 2018 | 8:51 AM

(Bethesda, MD) — Maryland-based Marriott will be getting rid of plastic straws from all its hotels. The hotel company says it plans to get rid of plastic straws from all of its more than 65-hundred hotels by July of 2019. Marriott said that will result in the elimination of more than one-billion plastic straws, and a quarter-billion stirrers every year.

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