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Article: Save the planet?I made a start ...with a pound ofthefinestpinkleather.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: Lauren Booth
TIME to take out winter boots from the attic. And what do I find among the tights from last year (still with holes in) and a thousand single gloves? An expensive pair of boots, bought in New York for my daughter Alex. Boots good enough to be handed down to my youngest, Holly. Except one of the zips was broken. Just a missing tooth but enough to make me head to the kitchen bin, open it and then stand there, boots in hand, wondering 'what on earth are you doing?'.
And there it was. In that single everyday action the seas rose, the globe warmed and this, our green and pleasant land, was transformed into a giant rubbish tip. Instead of ...