7 Year-Old Masters Persuasion

March 31, 2019 Lisa Mungovan

7 year-old Benjamin Ball loves sea turtles. So when he went to L.L. Bean’s store in Maine, and they only had plastic straws, he wrote a letter to the company’s president. He explained how plastic hurts marine animals, and asked them to use paper straws. L.L. Bean followed his advice, and switched to biodegradable straws!