Dine out sustainably this summer season at Keys eating places which have pledged handy out single-use objects — like plastic utensils, straws, and condiment packets — solely once you ask.
This summer season, eating out within the Keys comes with a facet of sustainability. Eating places and meals vans are becoming a member of the Skip the Stuff Summer season marketing campaign, a easy but highly effective pledge handy out single-use objects — like plastic utensils, straws, and condiment packets — solely once you ask.
It’s a small change with a big effect: fewer plastics in our stunning waters, value financial savings for eating places, and a simple method for guests to journey (and eat) slightly lighter.
The Skip the Stuff Summer season initiative is a partnership between Surfrider Florida Keys, Monroe County authorities, and passionate native companies who love the Keys as a lot as you do.
So subsequent time you seize a chunk, be a part of the motion — say “no thanks” to stuff you don’t want and assist defend the coral and different marine life within the Florida Keys Nationwide Marine Sanctuary.
The place to Eat & Skip the Stuff
Right here’s the place you possibly can dine sustainably this summer season at eating places taking part within the Skip the Stuff pledge:
Key Largo
Num Thai Restaurant and Sushi Bar
Tavernier
Gardenias Bistro at Island Residence Backyard Heart
Islamorada
Love Bites Bistro at The Banyan Tree
Puerto Vallarta Mexican Bar & Grill
Marathon
Key West
This marketing campaign runs via September 30 — however why cease there? Collectively, we will make “skipping the stuff” a Keys behavior all 12 months lengthy.
Get pleasure from Mexican delicacies with daring flavors at Amigos Tortilla Bar on Greene Avenue in Key West. Picture courtesy of Amigos.
Get pleasure from Mexican delicacies with daring flavors at Amigos Tortilla Bar on Greene Avenue in Key West. Picture courtesy of Amigos.
Along with the “Skip the Stuff” marketing campaign, many companies all through the Keys have signed on for Reef Reduction’s Skip the Straw initiative together with the Plastic Free Key West pledge for companies within the southernmost metropolis. Each campaigns purpose to maintain plastic out of Keys waterways and the ocean, primarily as a result of marine life that ingests plastic has a excessive mortality charge.
In case you’re on the lookout for different methods to assist our marine ecosystem, you possibly can take a free cruise with Conch Republic Marine Military to gather trash and marine particles from delicate mangrove shorelines. Journeys depart from Marathon, Looe Key and Key West. They’ll reward your efforts by taking for to a close-by sandbar for some well-deserved leisure and a free lunch!
Divers can take an lively half in restoring coral reefs on coral planting dives with I.CARE or Coral Restoration Basis within the Higher Keys, or Reef Renewal and Mote Marine in partnership with Capt. Hook’s in Massive Pine Key.
And whilst you’re within the Keys, please you should definitely use mineral sunscreens, that are ocean pleasant versus most industrial chemical sunscreens. Most of these sunscreens include chemical substances that may harm marine life DNA, induce coral bleaching, deform or kill younger fish and even induce defects in younger dolphins.
Ocean-friendly manufacturers embrace Stream2Sea, Uncooked Parts, Little Palms Hawaii, All Good and Uncooked Love, which might be discovered at a wide range of Keys companies together with those listed right here by Reef Reduction.