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Good Food Guide awards Sydney Doesn’t Suck campaign

On 8 October, the City of Sydney Councillor Jess Miller-led Sydney Doesn’t Suck campaign won the Food for Good Award at the National Good Food Guide’s 2018 Awards in Melbourne. “To get this acknowledgment from the sector and watch the growing support from hundreds of venues across Sydney has been amazing,” Jess says. “The commitment, just from the Sydney Opera House precinct alone, means that more than two million turtle-choking straws will not be used within the next year. That’s a pretty incredible outcome.”
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Sydney Opera House joins #SydneyDoesntSuck campaign to ditch plastic straws 

To help fight the war on waste, the Sydney Opera House and Solotel Group’s Sydney Opera Bar has committed to ditching single-use plastic straws, saving 1.1 million straws each year.  All of the Opera House’s onsite restaurants will be plastic straw free by August 1, 2018, with straws only made available on request to patrons who specifically require them. The move is estimated to save more than two million straws each year across the precinct.
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