Our RemarkableWomenAwards Inspiration of the Year winner is founder of Plastic_Patrol, LizzieOutside:
Just a few months ago, we asked. The indomitable Lizzie Carr came out as the winner, and it’s easy to see why.
“I saw rubbish everywhere, birds’ nests were full of wrappers, straws and bags, and plastic bottles would tumble onto one end of my board and pop out the other,”“I was using the waterways as a place to restore my health, but they were in a worse condition than I was.”Rather than ignore the issue, though, Carr decided to do something about it. She paddled 400 miles from Godalming to the Lake District, taking 3,000 photos over 22 days to show the extent of the rubbish.
“It felt surreal but invigorating that there was a community ready to help, and I was blown away on our first global clean-up day last September when thousands of people from 20 countries went out on the same day collecting litter and logging it on the app for a huge simultaneous data collection on plastic pollution,” she said.“I was really shocked to even be nominated for this award.
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