Grown-ups are ruining the world

LUCA BONDI, nine, lives with his parents, Caroline, 51, a personal assistant and Jim, 51, a landscape gardener, in St Austell, Cornwall.

LUCA: I started beach cleaning with my dad when I was six. What we find is just disgusting. I don’t want to be mean, but it really surprises me grown-ups can be such absolute idiots. Don’t they understand all this rubbish is slowly destroying the world? Dad and I join a group of about 30 on Fistral Beach one Saturday a month. After three hours we have a hot chocolate in the cafe. We easily fill five big rubbish sacks. I hope one day I will go and find the beach all clean. DAD JIM: Luca is so passionate about the environment, he was even out litter picking on Christmas Eve. We’d taken his sledge to the beach. But instead of jumping on the sledge himself, he started loading it with all abandoned nets and other fishing paraphernalia.