17/11/2025
Steffan Aquarone
It's a very humbling feeling when a ten year old understands the critical need for looking after our with greater urgency than most adults.
Here's a letter sent to us by the proud parent of a 10 year old daughter, Margot. It seems that the need for wide, ecologically-focussed improvement isn't going unnoticed by the generations that will inherit the problems of . Margot authored this very passionate letter herself, writing to Steff Aquarone, the MP for North Norfolk...
'Dear Mr. Aquarone,
We hope this letter finds you well. My name is Margot ------ from ------ Primary School. I am writing to you because Ruby Class have been doing some research on Plastic Pollution in the ocean, and have used infographics. What we found was devastating! We are writing to inform you how much trouble the ocean is in. We must stop this.
Each week, companies like Ocean Cleanup go to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to collect up all the plastic. Each time they find over 8 million tonnes of plastic waste. Not only are they finding plastic, they are finding dead birds that have been victimised by plastic. Researchers cut open these birds, usually Albatrosses, and find almost no blood or organs, just cold, hard plastic. We have discovered that the mother Albatrosses fly to the North of Canada to collect food (plastic). Then when they come back they regurgitate it to their young.
All this plastic isn't just affecting seabirds. It also affects stomachs of fish, turtles and other marine life. This results in painful, slow deaths for marine animals. It also affects humans that eat these fish that contain micro plastics. In 10 years time humans could be 20% plastic. And that is why we need to help. Because we are hurting wildlife, and that needs to stop.
In conclusion, I think you should reduce plastic production, replace plastic products that could be metal or paper, and pay more money towards companies like Ocean Cleanup, Thames Water and iBoxit. These companies collect plastic from the ocean, turn polystyrene into metal, cardboard and paper and make the world a better place. Hopefully you can consider my views on things, and solve one of the world's BIGGEST PROBLEMS! Can you make the world a better place?
Yours sincerely, Margot ------. x'
Enough to bring tears to one's eyes isn't it? If you're reading this post and still not doing something to help remove from the planet, then why not? The technology is there, the will is there; it just needs each of us to do our part - and we could get this mess cleaned up very quickly.
We're so proud be mentioned implicitly in a letter such as this, thank you Margot!
The Ocean Cleanup Thames Water
