Its always nice to have a helping hand in life especially when trying to do something as big as publish a magazine and maintain a website with such a small team, so its with great pleasure that we welcome a new guest blogger to 72&Rising this week.

I keep meeting young people who are striving to make a difference and achieving incredible things at such a young age. Mary Kat is one of these incredible people and at just 17 years old she is already a huge inspiration. If you have been following our blogs up until now, you will be aware that we are trying to go plastic free.  Its a really important decision for us, especially having seen first hand the devastation that plastic ingestion upon marine animals can cause.  Its not pretty, its not nice and its not fair! So far we are finding it fairly easy (mind you we are still in the very early days!), and we are hoping that at least a few of you are following us with your own journey.

Mary Kat is known as ‘The plastic free chef’.  As the name suggests she cooks entirely plastic free and, as of this week, will be writing guest blogs on this topic for 72&Rising.  She will be sharing with you some recipes to make at home and some tips about how to live a plastic free life.  We would like to welcome her on board and can’t wait to read her contributions.  I know we will certainly be trying out her recipes and hope that many of you will too! Don’t forget to send us a message/photo if you do give it a go and let us know what you think.

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