Plastic straws are designed to be used once, but they remain in the environment forever, contributing to the ocean pollution crisis. In recent weeks, multinational corporations like Starbucks, Bacardi, Alaska Airlines and others have committed to addressing the problem at its source by pledging to eliminate single-use plastic straws.

In this episode of Deeply Talks, Todd Woody, News Deeply’s executive editor for environment, discusses this phenomenon with Dune Ives, executive director of the environmental group Lonely Whale, whose “Stop Sucking” campaign helped kickstart the movement.