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)
- 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 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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