Six-year-old's campaign to stop people littering

A six-year-old girl who made a poster to stop people littering and also organised litter picking said she was worried about the environment.

Miri, from Wem, Shropshire, wrote to BBC Midlands Today, and said "litter can go down rivers and into the sea and creatures can get tangled up in it".

The girl, who hopes to be a conservationist or a doctor, stated people "need to look after the environment".

Her campaign comes 70 years after a group from the National Federation of Women's Institutes began their campaign to Keep Britain Tidy.

"When people throw things out of their cars, and then it floods, it could go into a river and into the sea and then it would get tangled up in all the coral and the creatures will get hurt," she said.

In her letter, the girl asked for help to stop people littering.

Asked what she thought the world was going to be like in half a century's time, she stated: "I'm worried about global warming and animals being extinct."

Mother Sarah said: "She's always telling her nanny and grandad that they've got to put their rubbish away and whenever she sees rubbish with them, she's like 'that needs to go in the dustbin, people need to put rubbish away'.

"She's now been trying to get her school involved as well. She took her poster into school and the poster is actually now displayed in school for everybody to see as well."

Miri's name means miracle, her mother Sarah said, after she became pregnant on the eighth attempt of IVF.

Her father, Nelson, died before she was born.

Speaking recently, the mother said: "She asked me yesterday if we could build a time machine and go back in time to try and make him better and heal him. "

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