Hope Jones’ New Year’s resolution is to give up plastic, and she’s inspiring others to do the same with her website hopejonessavestheworld.com. When she realises her local supermarket seems to stock more unnecessary plastic than food, she makes it her mission to do something about it. She may be just one ten-year-old with a homemade banner, but with enough determination, maybe Hope Jones really can save the world.
What a great story. Hope has very real, manageable ways for everyone to reduce their plastic use. Like a lot of us, she gets frustrated when it seems like there's too much plastic for her to make a difference, and like probably rather less of us, she keeps going anyway, reasoning that any amount of plastic she can save is better than none.
I liked that everyone around her had different reactions; some of the business people she approached were receptive, some didn't want to hear it, mostly her family helped her but occasionally they got fed up and so on. There was no one-size-fits-all, which I thought was great.
The tips and ideas were great and really easy to implement - most people have reusable bags now, and having a reusable bottle isn't too much more of a step. Carrying your own cutlery when you're going out is easy enough too, and there's plenty of other ideas in here. As Hope says, if everyone who reads it saves ten pieces of plastic...
I really enjoyed this and I think other people will too.
PS You can really visit the website Hope uses as her blog! There are activity sheets and a plastic tracker to download.
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