Wales's 'Young Hero': The teenage eco activist who's waging war on plastic pollution
For her sixth birthday, Skye Neville asked her parents for a litter picker. Aged ten, she gave an interview to BBC Radio 4 that prompted Waitrose to stop selling children's magazines with plastic toys attached. At 12, she was in Costa Rica working as a marine plastics officer for a sea turtle conservation project, and at 14 she starred in a crusading documentary film and spoke at a press conference at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Last month, aged 15, she won two separate awards (on top of the three she already had) - Environmental Champion in the Child of Wales Awards and Young Hero at the BBC Wales Make a Difference Awards - for her unflagging and spirited campaigning against plastic waste. Though she's already done more to wage war on plastic pollution than most people do in a lifetime, Skye - from Friog - has no plans to end her fight, which has inspired thousands of young people around the world to stand up for environmental change. ...
