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    MUM ON A PLASTIC MISSION

    Jul 16, 2020 3 minutes

    Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, 50, Perth, WA

    Baking a cake from scratch, my mum, Leigh, popped a slice in my lunch box, along with a nectarine grown on our farm, and a hearty homemade sandwich.

    My siblings and I wore second-hand clothes or hand-me-downs. And, instead of buying books, we’d make a weekly trip to the library.

    Why can’t we have shop-bought biscuits like the other kids? I’d wonder.

    But, growing up and having three kids of my own, aged 13, 11 and seven,

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