‘We can't still be talking about this in 30 years… by then it'll be too late'

THE Duke of Cambridge has revealed that Prince George is already “annoyed” by the state of the environment and cannot understand why people drop litter.

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In an interview with the BBC ahead of this weekend’s Earth shot Prize, William said his eight-year-old son’s experience litter picking with his school, Thomas’s, in Battersea, had made him environmentally aware.

He said: “I didn’t realise but talking to him the other day he was already showing that he was getting a bit confused and a bit sort of annoyed by the fact they went out litter picking one day and then the very next day they did the same route, same time and pretty much all the same litter they picked up again.

“And I think that for him he was trying to understand how and where it all came from. He couldn’t understand, he’s like, well, we cleaned this. Why has it not gone away?”

In his interview with BBC Newscast on BBC Sounds, William told presenter Adam Fleming he was worried George would still have to be talking about environmental issues in 30 years’ time “because by then we will be too late”.