Editing Daily Mail (section)

===Campaigns against plastic pollution===
The paper has campaigned against [[plastic pollution]] in various forms since 2008. The paper called for a levy on single use plastic bags.<ref name="Collins-2012">{{cite magazine|last1=Collins|first1=Lauren|title=Mail Supremacy|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/02/mail-supremacy|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=April 2012|access-date=12 January 2016|archive-date=17 May 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160517084209/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/02/mail-supremacy|url-status=live}}</ref> The Daily Mail's work in highlighting the issue of plastic pollution was praised by the head of the [[United Nations Environment Program]], [[Erik Solheim]] at a conference in Kenya in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fernandez |first=Colin |url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5148405/UN-gets-Daily-Mails-campaign-plastic-waste.html |title=UN gets behind Daily Mail's campaign on plastic waste |work=Daily Mail |date=5 December 2017 |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=21 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171221235742/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5148405/UN-gets-Daily-Mails-campaign-plastic-waste.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Emily Maitlis]], the newscaster, asked [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] leader [[Caroline Lucas]] on ''[[Newsnight]]'', 'Is the biggest friend to the Environment at the moment the ''Daily Mail''?' in reference to the paper's call for a ban on plastic microbeads and other plastic pollution, and suggested it had done more for the environment than the Green Party. Environment group [[ClientEarth]] has also highlighted the paper's role in drawing attention to the plastic pollution problem along with the [[Blue Planet II]] documentary.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/951224603484987392?lang=en |title=BBC Newsnight on Twitter: ""Is the biggest friend to the environment at the moment the Daily Mail?" |publisher=Twitter.com |date=10 January 2018 |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308001225/https://twitter.com/bbcnewsnight/status/951224603484987392?lang=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clientearth.org/plastics-nature-and-environmental-governance-top-agenda-for-eu-china-meeting/ |title=Plastics, nature and environmental governance top agenda for EU-China meeting |work=ClientEarth |date=25 June 2018 |access-date=22 August 2018 |archive-date=25 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725123651/https://www.clientearth.org/plastics-nature-and-environmental-governance-top-agenda-for-eu-china-meeting/ |url-status=live }}</ref>