Plastic Soup Ocean - Ocean Gyre Preso for Elementary and Middle School - including solutions
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Plastic Soup Ocean…
http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nightly-news/large-garbage-patch-floating-in-the-pacific-ocean-318824003814
Ocean Trash – the story…
The Great Pacific Gyres
What do turtles eat?
1 Million seabirds and 100,000 other marine animals (including turtles, whales, and fish) are
killed every year as a result of plastic litter
Plastic takes hundreds of years to break down
Where does this trash come from?PEOPLE LITTERING !!!!!
Trash from the street goes into the drains…
Litter from the Street, into the Storm Drains, into the Ocean
Then goes out to the Bay
Trash then goes into the Ocean
Cigarette Butts are 20% of all litter
Styrofoam
Styrofoam is made of little tiny round balls that are compressed into Cups, Food Containers, and Coolers.
Styrofoam = Nasty when it gets into the water
When the bond deteriorates, the little tiny pieces float for hundreds
of years and are impossible to clean up. Marine life
thinks this very toxic material is food, and it enters our food chain. These pictures are all
Styrofoam.
What other types of single use plastics are littered?
You don’t have to be part of the
problem !!!
• When we throw something ‘away’, where does it go? What is ‘Away’?
• What kinds of disposable single-use plastics do we use every day?
It all starts with you and your decisions…
Reduce
Refuse
Recycle
Recover
Reuse
Lower the amount of waste created
Use things more than once
Do you really need that?
Using materials to make new products
Recover energy from waste
Landfill Safely dispose of waste to landfill
Know that you know all this
information, what will you do differently?
It’s not only personal decisions…
You can be a Change-Maker if you think
Man vs.
Trash
I collect about 75 pounds of trash every week !
Commonly found trash• Plastic shopping bags• Plastic water/soda bottles and lids• Cigarette butts (not biodegradable)• Cigarette pack plastic wrappers• Styrofoam Cups / food containers
• Plastic Straws• Plastic Food bags (potato • chips) and wrappers• Aluminum cans• Used fishing line
I asked the Miami Beach Government to BAN Styrofoam
AND THEY DID !!!!
I also started a website…
19-Year-old Boyan Slat invents solution to cleanup ocean garbage patches
Park School Students Lobby Dunkin' Donuts on Styrofoam
Styrofoam is bad for the environment, animals, and human health. 4th and 5th grade student formed the Kids Styrofoam Club and created an online petition asking Dunkin Donuts to eliminate Styrofoam cups
from their locations by Earth Day of 2015. The students delivered 250,000 signature to Dunkin
Donuts, who said they are working on different cups.
I am a Change-Maker
Park Elementary 5th Grade Students are Change-Makers
Are you a Change-Maker?