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This 10-year-old girl is travelling 1,000km in memory of the ‘plastic whale’

Young Lilly Platt is doing something that many adults wouldn't even consider doing: getting involved in a massive beach clean-up in Norway. 

The 10-year-old will travel from Holland to the Norwegian island of Sotra – a distance of over 1,000km – in order to take part in the Plastic Whale Coastal Clean-Up and Conference on April 25th. 

The young girl, who is the Youth Ambassador for the Plastic Pollution Coalition and a Child Ambassador for HOW Global, was moved to do something after a whale was found dead with more than 30 plastic bags in its stomach last year.

Lilly, along with a number of volunteers, will spend one day removing plastic from along the coastline and another taking part in a conference about tackling our ever-growing plastic problem.

Explaining why she has decided to take part in the clean-up, Lilly told Benjamin Steele from Good News Network: "I started picking up rubbish after seeing the effect that it had on wildlife."

"I knew that every piece I picked up, was one less piece that could harm a living creature."

The clean-up will be supported by the Norwegian government, who will be providing equipment to lift heavy waste items. 

For more information on the clean-up and the conference, click here

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