“Everyone thinks they are doing the right thing by recycling. But the best thing you can do for the planet is completely avoid plastic. Plastic free is the best way,” says Caroline Bond, fibre artist and activist. We are sliding down the pebble ledge at Tide Mills beach near Seaford in East Sussex.
Caroline has a beach cleaning bag under her arm. “It is better to collect as I walk back along the beach, rather than from the beginning,” she says. “Otherwise I ill the bag quickly and have to carry it twice as far.” It makes sense, but ignoring the scale of the rubbish as we walk becomes increasingly difficult. It seems overwhelming.
Caroline, known as Kittie Kipper on Instagram, uses social media to protest, share the beach-clean message and champion living plastic free as a way to save our planet. She beach cleans daily and uses her Instagram platform to share a visual diary of what she finds and the objects she creates out of ghost nets and marine plastics.