Scottish teenagers petition on single-use plastics wins support in parliament

Groundswell of support for ban propels campaign of Tabby Fletcher, 17, from her island home on Jura to HolyroodA petition by a schoolgirl on a remote island calling on the Scottish government to ban all single-use plastics has received more than 26,000 signatures and the backing of MSPs in the Highlands and Islands.Tabby Fletcher, a 17-year-old from the Isle of Jura, off the west coast of Scotland, launched the petition after seeing dead birds, their bodies entangled in plastic, among piles of w...