An Oswestry School teacher and her daughter have started a global environmental social media campaign.
Art and drama teacher Mandy Price and her daughter Becky were inspired to start the #doitfordavid campaign after discovering a vast amount of plastic on a beach walk on Christmas Day.
Mandy was aware of the problems plastics cause to marine life after watching an episode of Sir David Attenborough’s BBC documentary series ‘Blue Planet’.
The mother and daughter duo’s research found that 80% of what ends up in oceans comes from inland via rivers and the wind, which led to their idea of encouraging everyone to pick up plastic on their everyday travels. Sir David asked his audience to address this issue, inspiring the pair’s hashtag, #doitfordavid.
Mandy’s initial Facebook post included the hashtag and has been shared over 125,000 times and counting, sparking global action from countries including Australia and Cuba.
Mandy commented: “I can’t believe how positively this campaign has been received around the world. The support we are receiving reaffirms my belief in the human race and makes me hopeful that we can change the current state of the oceans and protect the wildlife that lives within the seas. I hope that, if Sir David should hear about our efforts, he would be proud to have ignited this global response to his plea.”