 The eventful year of the wildlife filmmaker who got plastic bags banned in Modbury
Rebecca Hosking is one of only three female wildlife filmmakers in Britain. Last year, while filming on a beach on a remote Hawaiian atoll, she came across hundreds of dying albatross chicks – they had all swallowed bits of plastic. She also saw dying humpback whales, seals and turtles – and remembered the plastic bags floating in the sea in Devon where she swam as a child. When she returned to her native Modbury, she started a campaign to ban the bag. Before long she’d persuaded all 43 shopkeepers to replace their plastic bags with reusable ones, prompting the head of Greenpeace UK to declare: ‘She should be prime minister’. Now Gordon Brown has announced his intention to roll out her initiative to all supermarkets, and nearly 80 towns and 33 London Boroughs want to get on board. Rebecca tells Jenni about her eventful year. |
