A schoolgirl from Eastcote wowed MPs, scientists and global leaders with her suggestion to encourage Londoners to reduce, re-use and recycle at a summit in parliament.
A total of 18,000 schools entered the Wastebuster Competition, putting together a presentation of ways to cut down on plastic waste.
Out of the thousands, just 20 entrants were chosen to go to the Primary Earth Summit in the Houses of Parliament on Monday and eight-year-old Iona Phillips was one of three winners from Field End School in Field End Road, Eastcote.
She won her category Education and Awareness, with her plan to collect plastic rubbish that is dumped in the River Thames and display it inside a whale model made of recycled plastic on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Alongside eight-year-old Kerem Ohri in the Design and Innovation category and Molly Robinson, also eight, in the Collection Systems category, the Field End School children were the youngest in the competition.
Hosted by MP Zac Goldsmith the Primary Earth Summit was organised to tackle plastic waste and the top solutions, including Iona's, will be developed to help promote sustainable ways of using and reusing plastics as a valuable resource.
