Plastic use Pros Light, strong and inexpensive Sterile Useful for holding dangerous household items Preserves flavour in food Cons Damages the environment A single plastic bag can take 20 - 1,000 years to degrade Plastic debris in the ocean can end up ingested by marine life, end up on the ocean floor, or end up dumped on some shore People litter rather than recycle Turtles eat plastic bags thinking they are jellyfish Plastic is absorbed by fish that humans eat They say by 2050 the plastic in the sea will outweigh the fish Main Plastic Polluters (corporations and countries) Coca-Cola PepsiCo Nestlé China India Indonesia Surfers Against Sewage Clean beaches Deposit return system Ban single use plastics Plastic free communities Plastic free schools GreenPeace End polluting energy Preserve our forests and oceans Hold corporations and governments accountable for making a profit off of pollution Stop fracking Cutting Plastic...