Everyone from the Queen to the BBC has outlawed single-use plastics like straws and bottles after David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II highlighted the damaging effect plastic pollution is having on marine life.
Now it turns out that children have taken the environmental message to heart too.
“Plastic” has been declared children’s word of the year, with thousands of youngsters featuring it in their creative writing.
The trend emerged after the Oxford University Press analysed entries to BBC Radio 2’s annual 500 Words competition for children aged 13 and under.
Entrants were asked to write an original work of fiction using no more than 500 words. The competition attracted 134,790 stories and the winners were revealed live on Chris Evans’ Radio 2 breakfast show earlier this month.
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