Eleanor Woods, 12, from Huddersfield, designed a bag with a solar-powered air filter.
Eleanor Woods said she was inspired by her mum, who has asthma, to design a bag that helped tackle pollution
A schoolgirl who designed a backpack to help tackle pollution said she was inspired by her asthmatic mum. Eleanor Woods, from Highburton, near Huddersfield, created a bag with a built-in solar-powered fan and filter to clean polluted air.The 12-year-old said she hopes the backpack will help improve people's health and said it "could be really good for the planet".
"My generation is really aware of pollution and we have lessons on it at school along with diseases spreading, and this is another reason I designed this, because it is getting much worse," she said.She said Greta Thunberg was a "really big role model".Eleanor entered the Backpack To The Future competition after her mother, who suffers from asthma, put the application form in her room.
In the future, Eleanor said she hopes to enter the world of creative design and is also eager to get into teaching.Her mum, Annabel Hobbs, 58, said: "I can't believe she drew something and now we actually get to see it."
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