Feeling blue: Hong Kong student dyes her hair to campaign for blue skies and sea
Sunny Donat hopes her act will prompt greater awareness of the need to fight environmental degradation
Some people dye their hair for fashion reasons, but for 10-year-old Sunny Donat, dying her hair blue means starting a campaign to save Hong Kong’s blue sky and sea from pollution.
“I have to live on this planet for the rest of my life, and so do you, so if you are reading this, think about what should be blue,” Donat, a Year Six student at Nord Anglia International School, wrote in a three-page letter to the Post.
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“My blue hair could start a trend of protest against people who treat the planet as a garbage can.”
In her Clearwater Bay neighbourhood, Donat, a Hong Kong-born resident, said she often found litter and plastic that people threw on the ground or into the sea.
Hong Kong Cleanup, a local non-government organisation, collected close to 4,300 tonnes of rubbish from the city’s coastlines, country park trails and streets in 2014, an increase of 13 per cent over 2013, according to its latest report.
