70-Year-Old Grandma Cleans 52 Beaches In One Year70岁的老奶奶一年内清理52个海滩To save the environment, we must all pitch in – and nobody knows this better than 70-year-old grandmother Pat Smith who spent 2018 cleaning up litter from 52 beaches in Cornwall on the United Kingdom’s south coast.

保护环境，人人有责。

没有人比70岁的帕特·史密斯奶奶更清楚这一点了，她在2018年清理了英国南海岸康沃尔郡52个海滩上的垃圾。

Smith set out on her eco mission in January to carry out her New Year’s resolution of making her community a better and cleaner place.

The ambitious goal came to her after watching a documentary on plastic pollution the previous year, and she knew she couldn’t sit by idly.

史密斯于今年1月开始执行她的环保使命，实现她的新年愿望，让她的社区成为一个更好、更干净的地方。

去年看了一部关于塑料污染的纪录片后，她想到了这个远大的目标，她知道自己不能坐视不管。

This 70-year-old grandmother spent 2018 cleaning up 52 different beaches – and she doesn’t plan to stop这位70岁的奶奶在2018年清理了52个不同的海滩，而且她并不打算停止Over the year, Smith cleaned beaches from Coverack on the Lizard Peninsula to Blackpool Sands in Devon.

Often, volunteers would join her in her efforts, including her grandchildren or she would collaborate with other campaigners such as Martin Dorey of Bude, founder of 2 Minute Beach Clean; Wayne Dixon who is walking around the UK coast as an ambassador for Keep Britain Tidy, and volunteers from Beach Guardian and Surfers Against Sewage.

在过去的一年里，史密斯清理了从蜥蜴半岛的卡弗拉克到德文郡黑池沙的海滩。

通常，志愿者会加入她，跟她一起努力，包括她的孙子孙女，而且她会和其他人合作，如布德的马丁·多雷，2分钟海滩清洁公司创始人;作为保持英国整洁”的大使在英国海岸散步的维恩·迪克森，他也是海滩卫士”和冲浪者”的志愿者。

During her beach cleans, Smith was sometimes mistaken for doing community service!

She said: People don’t understand I’ve been doing this voluntarily.

We should all take responsibility for picking up the litter as well as ensuring we don’t drop litter in the first place.

”在清洁海滩的过程中，史密斯有时被误认为是在做社区服务!

她说：人们不明白我是自愿这么做的，我们都应该承担起捡垃圾的责任，同时确保我们一开始就不乱扔垃圾。

”Even before her beach cleanups, Smith had begun her first environmental campaign to eliminate plastic staws in her city of Cornwall.

To date, she has encouraged 600 local companies to stop using unnecessary plastic.

She strives to make her hometown an example for the plastic-free movement in the United Kingdom.

In order to help achieve this goal, she founded The Final Straw Cornwall which was launched in the summer of 2017.

I founded the Final Straw to try and raise awareness of the catastrophic damage we are doing to our oceans from our casual consumption of single-use plastics.

I feel I have a responsibility to my children and grandchildren to do something about it,” she said.

甚至在她清洁海滩之前，史密斯就开始了她的第一个环保活动，消除康沃尔市的塑料吸管。

直到今天，她鼓励了600家当地的公司停止使用不必要的塑料制品。

她努力使她的家乡成为英国无塑料运动的典范。

为了实现这一目标，她创建了最终的稻草康沃尔”，该项目于2017年夏天启动。

她说：我建立了最后一根稻草项目，试图提高人们对一次性塑料消费给海洋带来的灾难性破坏的认识。

我觉得我有责任为我的孩子和孙子孙女们做些什么。

”Pat’s now still doing more beach cleans.

Now that the UK government has announced it will ban plastic straws, she also wants to highlight other single-use plastic items such as coffee cups and the plastic used to wrap fruit and veg in supermarkets to encourage others to reduce the amount of single-use plastic.

She’s taken part in big Plastic Unwrap events at local supermarkets, for example,” said Carpenter.

帕特现在还在做更多的海滩清洁工作。

虽然英国政府已经宣布将禁止使用塑料吸管，她还想强调其他一次性塑料制品，比如咖啡杯和超市里用来包装水果和蔬菜的塑料制品，以鼓励其他人减少使用一次性塑料制品。

比如，她参加了当地超市的大型塑料开封活动。

”卡彭特说。

Her friend said the responses to her initiatives have been inspiring, Really delighted and surprised and hugely inspired by all the people who have begun to turn up and start taking care of their local beaches and the many messages of support from all over the world.

It’s particularly heartwarming to see young children getting involved and learning about how plastic affects our world, as this gives us all a lot of hope for the future.

”她的朋友说，人们对她倡议的反应令人鼓舞，非常高兴，也非常惊讶，受到了所有人的巨大鼓舞，这些人已经开始去清洁他们当地的海滩，还从世界各地发来许多支持信息。

尤其是看到孩子们参与其中，了解塑料是如何影响我们的世界，这让我们对未来充满希望，特别让人感动。

”Her resolution year may be over but this environmentally conscious grandma continues her quest.

A lot of the rubbish I have picked up consists of everyday items,” said Pat.

These things are used by all of us and it is shocking to find them polluting our beautiful beaches.

Please let’s try to be more thoughtful in this coming year.

I’m driven to try and protect our living planet for my children and grandchildren and I will continue to do everything in my power to achieve that.

”她的新年目标可能已经过去了，但是这位有环保意识的奶奶继续着她的追求。

我捡到的很多垃圾都是日常用品”，帕特说。

我们所有人都在使用这些东西，当发现它们污染了我们美丽的海滩，真的令人震惊。

在新的一年里，让我们多想想。

我决心为我的子孙后代保护我们的地球，我将继续尽我所能做到这一点。

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