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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 someone from the European Union.In June, Lilly won her first victory: she persuaded Central, a major...
September 16, 2019
Lilly, Thailand's Greta Thunberg, wages 'war' on plastic
September 13, 2019
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Springsteen's 'Western Stars' scores standing ovation at Toronto Film Festival
September 13, 2019
'I cannot stay silent': Turkish rappers get political
September 13, 2019
Style icons slam throwaway fashion culture
September 13, 2019
Natalie Portman joins Hollywood space race with 'Lucy in the Sky'
September 12, 2019
Taylor Swift signs up for 'race that stops a nation'
September 12, 2019
'Little Mermaid' can help save oceans, says Bardem
September 12, 2019
Influential singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston dead at 58
September 12, 2019
Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical lion goes on display in Paris
