true or false? marine animals often mistake bits of plastic for food true whales often think plastic...
TRANSCRIPT
True or False?
Marine animals often mistake bits of plastic for food
TRUE Whales often think plastic bags are jelly fish. Fish mistake small bits of plastic for plankton.
True or False?
True Animals die from eating plastic or getting tangled and trapped.
Plastic rubbish kills as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.
True or False?
80% of all the plastic waste in the sea is dumped by ships.
False Only 20% is dumped by ships the other 80% was thrown away by us on land. Plastic is blown or washed into drains, streams, rivers and eventually finds it’s way into the sea.
True or False?
False We use enough plastic water bottles to circle the world twice!
In one year the UK uses enough plastic bottles of water to circle the earth once.
REFUSE
Say no to plastic straws
Say no to plastic bottles - Get a reusable drinking bottle
Say no to plastic bags - Carry your own bag
REDUCE
Find an alternative to plastic party bags full of plastic toys
Encourage your parents to buy fruit and vegetables that are not wrapped in plastic.
Use soap instead of liquid soap in plastic bottles
REUSE
Buy toys from the charity shop
Take your plastic toys to the charity shop
Wash and keep packaging to use again
Use plastic pots to store things in
Use plastic for art or craft projects
RECYCLE
Recycle as much plastic as you possibly can
You can recycle bottles, bags, trays and other packaging
Image from schools pack
1. Use a reusable stainless steel drinking bottle instead of buying plastic bottles.
2. Remember to take reusable shopping bags when you go shopping.
3. Use soap instead of body wash in plastic bottles.
4. Use metal cutlery instead of plastic, and paper plates instead of plastic.
5. Say ʻNOʼ to plastic straws.
Top Tips to reduce plastic
6. Take unwanted plastic toys to the charity shop.
7. If you are planning a party bag don’t choose plastic toys.
8. Reuse plastic things for craft projects
9. Reuse plastic boxes and other plastic things if you can.
10. Recycle as much plastic as you can.
Top Tips to reduce plastic
Dear Albatross I did not knowMy plastic things could hurt you soThe bottle tops I sometimes drop
My slurpy, bendy strawsElastic bands I like to flick
Balloons that twist for birthday tricksI really had not one idea
That the plastic I see hereOn my streets and in my home
Would find its way to where you roam
Dear Albatross
Dear Albatross continued..
I did not know that my streets litterGets rained into the Thames to flitter
Along its twisty tidal pathInto the sea where its journey starts
To frolic over ocean wavesUntil in reaches your domain
Where now I know you think its foodAnd feed it to your new born brood
Oh Albatross I understandWhat plastic does to you is really bad
I promise to recycle thingsI would have once put in the binAnd I promise I will never drop
Wrappers from the sweetie shop
But most of all I will refusePlastic that only once I use
I will tell one person every dayThat plastic never goes away
But finds its way out to the seaWhere creatures eat it for their tea.
Dear Albatross continued…
The Wandering Albatross
Albatrosses spend almost all their lives at sea. They even sleep on the ocean. Once an albatross reaches adulthood it will fly out to sea and might not return back to the land for up to five years.
Albatrosses eat squid and fish they catch from the surface of the water. The parents have special stomachs that digest some food but keep aside a fishy oil, which they vomit up to feed their chicks.
The wandering albatross has a wingspan of 3.5 metres - more than three times your arm span.
Albatrosses can live for up to 70 years. Unfortunately, because they now face so many hazards from humans it is rare for them to die a natural death.
Of the 22 known albatross species, 19 are now threatened with extinction.
REAL ALBATROSS (May be upsetting)
&
&
PLASTIC COLLAGE
Info graphics
PLASTIC INFO GRAPHICS
From …..
Info graphics
From …..
From …..
From …..