Florida International University alumna, Catherine Uden, doesn't just pull trash out of the water while out racing their paddleboard. They lead the local Southern Florida chapter of Oceana and is hard at work defending the oceans by doing things like helping to pass bans on single use plastics, even finding one that was passed years ago and never enforced.
Uden’s helped pass dozens of local ordinances to cut down on single-use plastics. In her hometown of Hollywood, Fla., she discovered a decades-old, never-enforced law banning restaurants or cafés east of the intracoastal waterway from using single-use plastic foodware. She rallied to raise awareness and support for the law, and by the end of 2018, it was enforced.
FIU shares a bit about Uden's life and work in one of the recent Campus & Community articles.
Read the article from FIU News : https://news.fiu.edu/2021/alumna-protecting-the-ocean-from-her-paddleboard-and-beyond
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