Lilly, Thailand’s Greta Thunberg, wages ‘war’ on plastic

BANGKOK --- Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every single day. "I am a kid at war," the bubbly 12-year-old says after a painstaking hour-long routine picking up cans, bags and bottles bobbing in the canal. "I try to stay optimistic but I am also angry. Our world is disappearing," she adds. Thailand is the sixth largest global contributor to ocean pollution, and plastic is a scourge. Whether it's for wrapping up street food, takeaway coffees or for groceries, Thais use 3,000 single use bags per year -- 12 times more than som...

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