Flossie Donnelly

Flossie Donnelly (born 2007) is an Irish marine environmentalist. She is a secondary school student. She was the first person to bring seabins to Ireland. She was securing funds for two of the devices which remove plastic trash from bodies of water. Recently, she appears on the RTE News to promote her work.
Early life and career.
Donnelly grew up in Sandy-cove, Co Dublin. Her activism first began on a family trip to Thailand. It was when she was eight years old. During her holiday, she was shocked to the high rate of plastic pollution. She saw on the beaches she visited. She spent a many times on that trip collecting garbage from the sea. She was bringing it back to the hotel her family were staying at. On her return to Ireland, she noticed more and more garbages being washed up on local beaches. She felt a need to share her desire around protecting marine life. She wanted to educate others about plastic pollution. She was mentioned several times in many press media for her work. It was since then, she has been known as "Ireland's Greta Thunberg".
Education.
Donnelly is a secondary school student in Booterstown, Co Dublin. She has previously studied in two primary schools in Brussels and a French school in Dublin.
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Activism.
Donnelly regularly works for climate strikes either outside her school or the . She organizes beach cleanups in Dún Laoghaire and Sandycove. It was along the local South Dublin coastline. She started an environmental charity and action group called "Flossie &amp; the Beach Cleaners". It was when she was eleven. With that, she raised awareness about plastic pollution and its result for oceans and marine life. She raised €4,000 for two seabins into Ireland. The devices can remove up to 83,000 plastic bags or 20,000 plastic bottles from the sea in a year. On World Oceans Day, during June 2018, she led Ireland's only March for the Ocean event in Dún Laoghaire. She spoke at a TEDx Dún Laoghaire event in October 2018. In October 2019, RTÉjr announced that they would follow Donnelly's journey to the Citarum River in Indonesia. It is one of the world's dirtiest 'plastic' rivers, in a two-part documentary series. The documentary movie is named "My Story: The Beach Cleaner." This was one of her many public engagements with schools and the youth in Ireland. It was on the solutions to plastic pollution.