02/02/2018 Newsround

Hi, I'm Ricky.

Coming up on Newsround...

The guys taking advantage

of flooding in Paris.

And the kangaroo and the pillowcase.

Some big supermarkets in the UK

are promising to do more to help cut

the amount of plastic we use

and throw away, but they haven't

met these two yet!

They're determined to make sure food

stores change their ways.

Hi, I'm Amy.

And I'm Ella.

And we're here today

on a bit of a mission.

Every year, UK supermarkets use

a million tonnes of plastic.

And all that plastic

is seriously harming our planet.

We want them to make a change.

Iceland is one of the

big UK supermarkets.

They say they want to cut the amount

of plastic that they use.

So we've come to grill one

of their bosses to see

if they are doing enough.

We know that wasting

plastic is really bad,

so why do you use so much of it

in your shops?

Because that's what we've been used

to for the last 30 years,

we've been using plastics

all the time.

It's not right, now, but it's just

something that we used,

moving away from traditional

materials like paper and board.

See, the reason we are so passionate

about this is because plastic,

when it's thrown away,

is really harmful to the planet.

It doesn't rot like paper or food.

So we end up with

mountains of the stuff.

Animals get trapped in it,

it is eaten by fish in our seas.

And if it's the sort of plastic

that can't be recycled,

it means making more and more of it.

Supermarkets are making some

changes, though, like trying to make

more packaging recyclable.

Iceland say that in five years,

all of its own products

will be plastic free.

Five years is quite a long time.

Now, by that point we'll be around

17 and 19 years old.

So why aren't you doing it now?

Why is it taking this long?

Because the materials

are just not available.

We'd love to do it now.

So if we go in and say "Right,

we're changing direction and we're

going to another material"

and that's more expensive,

we don't think the consumer

is going to pay for that.

If it's only your products that

are going to become plastic free,

what about everything else?

Are your shops still going to be

completely full of plastic?

We're trying to get

rid of all plastic.

We're going to push the other brands

that you see around the store,

we're going to push everybody

to do it.

Plastic has been a problem

for years, so why is the change only

starting to happen now?

Blue Planet came along,

we all watched it and we were

shattered, weren't we?

We're killing sea turtles,

we're killing seals.

Yes, we were on it.

We were already looking at things,

we were already changing things,

but when Blue Planet came on,

I think everyone was aware than that

we've got a problem.

Thank you very much.

Well, it was great to hear

what Ian had to say,

and to hear about all the changes

that Iceland are making.

It just seems to lack that sense

of important urgency.

Yeah, Ian said some good

stuff but I just can't

imagine a place like this

being completely plastic free.

So there's still a lot of steps

that Iceland and other

supermarkets need to take.

I just wish it could happen sooner.

It's a hundred years

since a massive change in the law

meant some women were allowed

to vote in this country

for the very first time.

And that was made possible

by a few superheroes...

These are two superheroes with two

very different superpowers, both

battling a grave injustice.

The story starts way back in 1897...

I say!

..when the only people allowed

to vote for their MPs in the UK were

rich men and no women at all.

Marvellous Millicent

was angry about it.

She set up a league of heroes

known as the suffragists.

They campaigned for women

to get the votes and

tried to get support

from

men in Parliament.

But for Amazing Emmeline,

this wasn't enough.

She started a different group

of heroes called the suffragettes in

1903.

They felt that they had to go much

further to bring about change.

They chained themselves

to railings, set buildings

on fire and attacked

a

policeman.

-- attacked policeman.

Not everyone liked

the suffragettes because of their

tactics.

But they definitely made an impact.

And then in 1914, a great darkness

fell upon the planet and World War I

broke out. That meant that women

took the place of men in lots of

really important jobs, while the men

fought on the battlefield. And

because women made a huge difference

to winning the war, it became

impossible to keep ignoring Tim

Anstee give them the votes. So in

1918, the rules were changed. All

adult men were allowed to votes, and

for the first time, some women. It

would be

would be another ten years before

all women could vote, but I was

superheroes played a huge part in

creating a future where men and

women could have an equal vote.

Earlier in the week,

we told you about France's heaviest

rainfall in 50 years which flooded

parts of Paris, with some

places still underwater.

But while the floods have

been a bit of a nightmare for some -

these wakeboarders took the chance

to practice in the streets just

outside their house in the capital.

This little kangaroo

is taking his very first hops.

Bradley has been taking

the internet by storm.

The cute little guy is an orphan,

so he's being looked

after at the Kangaroo Sanctuary

in Alice Springs, Australia.

When he gets tired he jumps

into a pillowcase that's standing

in for his mum's pouch.

That's all from us.