Isobel and Poppy, aged nine and six, are demanding UK supermarkets take action to end plastic packaging for fruit and veg

Isobel and Poppy with their petition and (inset) their letter to supermarkets

Two Enfield schoolgirls have made it their mission to stop UK supermarkets packaging fruit and vegetables in plastic.

The climate-conscious sisters, aged nine and six and both pupils at St Michael’s CofE Primary School in Brigadier Hill, have written a letter to supermarket bosses and have also designed a petition that has gained nearly 600 signatures to date.

A French holiday last summer was the catalyst for the girls’ battle with supermarkets. Isobel and Poppy were “in awe” of the high-quality produce in French supermarkets with no plastic and were horrified when they arrived back in the UK to find that everything in supermarkets was covered in plastic. So they decided to do something about it.

In their letter to supermarket bosses, the girls wrote: “We think supermarkets have a lot answer for and we’d like to ask you a serious question: why are UK fruit and vegetables packed in plastic?”

St Michael’s has been supporting the girls’ project by incorporating climate change and ocean health into lessons, encouraging other children to write their own letters to supermarkets and to design pictures of the effects of plastic packaging on our oceans.

To sign the petition to UK supermarkets:
Visit change.org/StopPlasticPackagingInShops

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