I rely on plastic straws and baby wipes. I'm disabled - I have no choice | Penny Pepper

I know the environmental damage they cause, but I don't have the luxury of a plastic-free lifeI remember the dawning of my green consciousness: the sudden, painful realisation that products were tested on animals. This was in the early 1970s. I was about 10 years old. A teacher told me that baby powder was put into the eyes of cats and dogs to make sure it was safe. She also said that the plastic container would pollute the Earth.A few years later, as punk sensibility captured my naturally rebellious heart, I immersed myself in the ecological fight. I joined Greenpeace. I wrote letters - even to the pope on his visit to Britain - arguing against the clubbing of baby seals in Canada. This passion has never left me. Continue reading...