Think of a creative art project you can do to reuse your plastic trash.
Introduction of plastic pollution project.
Plastic pollution this module1 is intended for elementary or secondary education teachers interested in teaching their classroom about plastic pollution and for anyone interested in learning about the impacts of plastic pollution on our environment and society and actions we can take to diminish this problem.
For each r there can be a creative activity to show how it can be done.
A 1 plastic pollution is on the rise because nowadays people are using plastic endlessly.
These pollutants cause environmental degradation and also affect different living organisms and their habitats negatively.
Therefore these clean up efforts cannot reach more than half of the plastic discarded in our oceans.
Pollution is a man made problem mainly of effluent countries.
It has to be cleaned.
Epa only 46 of plastics float.
How can each of us help stop plastic pollution.
Plastics that act as pollutants are categorized into micro meso or macro debris based on size.
Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the marine environment yet estimates of the global abundance and weight of floating plastics have lacked data particularly from the southern hemisphere.
Pollution control is a recent environmental concern.
Clean up projects like the ocean clean up project have huge potential to remove plastic pollution from our oceans.
For more ideas see activity 28 air plants and activity 36 pollution search in plt s prek 8 environmental education activity guide.
Due to lack of development of a culture of pollution control there has resulted a heavy backlog of gaseous liquid and solid pollution in environment.
Meaning of plastic pollution.
Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles e g.
Plastic pollution is the introduction of plastic products into the environment which then upset the existing ecosystems in different ways.
Plastics are inexpensive and durable and as a result levels of plastic production by.
After listening to the ted talk on the surprising solution to ocean pollution and the abc new s article on plastic and how it affects our ocean it s your turn to do some more research on the topic of plastic pollution to prepare a report on.
However these projects only target plastic pollution on the surface.
According to the u s.
Plastic bottles bags and microbeads in the earth s environment that adversely affects wildlife wildlife habitat and humans.
Any ideas on how we.
Moreover plastic does not dissolve in the land or water it stays for more than hundred years contributing to uprise of plastic pollution.
For the jar of water dirt and bits of plastic will suffice.
An introduction to plastic pollution as a topic.
It is very economical and easily available.
Pollution is a necessary evil of all development.