The Impact of Plastic Pollution

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)
  1. Coca-Cola
  2. PepsiCo
  3. Nestlé
  1. China
  2. India
  3. Indonesia
Surfers Against Sewage
  1. Clean beaches
  2. Deposit return system
  3. Ban single use plastics
  4. Plastic free communities
  5. Plastic free schools
GreenPeace
  1. End polluting energy
  2. Preserve our forests and oceans
  3. Hold corporations and governments accountable for making a profit off of pollution
  4. Stop fracking

Cutting Plastic Use at Bodmin College Action Plan


  • Recycling bins
  • Paper bags
  • Re-useable pens
  • Find an alternative for plastic cutlery (e.g bamboo)
  • Use expanded polystyrene (bio degradable) instead of the 
































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