Floating plastic in the ocean (ShutterStock via Viswanathan, 2018) It’s not every day a ten-year-old girl is invited to her local council and demands change. That is exactly what happened when Molly Steer presented her idea to the Cairns Regional Council ‘Planning & Environment Committee’ on the 11 th of April 2018 ( Cairns Regional Council, 2018a, p.9). Both representing herself and on behalf of marine biologist Nicole Nash, Molly aimed to persuade the Council to reduce the use of single-use plastics including straws within the region ( Cairns Regional Council, 2018a, p.9; The Last Straw on the Great Barrier Reef, n.d. ). This wave of change started in February 2017 when nine-year-old Molly Steer saw the movie ‘A Plastic Ocean’, and instead of only acknowledging the impact of plastic pollution and especially straws on marine life including being eaten by turtles, Molly knew she needed to do something ( strawnomore, 2018) . Straight away, she convinced her S...