Even before her beach cleanups, Smith had begun her first environmental campaign to eliminate plastic staws in her city of Cornwall. To date, she has encouraged 600 local companies to stop using unnecessary plastic. She strives to make her hometown an example for the plastic-free movement in the United Kingdom. In order to help achieve this goal, she founded The Final Straw Cornwall which was launched in the summer of 2017. “I founded the Final Straw to try and raise awareness of the catastrophic damage we are doing to our oceans from our casual consumption of single-use plastics. I feel I have a responsibility to my children and grandchildren to do something about it,” she said.