Plastic Waste Management
Name of green bin in our classrooms?
What is a recycling bin?
Plastic cutlery, zip-lock bags, plastic straws, and plastic bottles are all what?
What is single use plastics?
Fragments of any type of plastic that is less than 5 mm in length.
What are microplastics?
Instead of plastic takeout boxes many restaurants switched to...
What are cardboard boxes?
Plastic pollution poses the biggest threat to what environment?
What is marine environment?
the term that refers to the process of converting waste into new materials.
What is recycling?
How individuals purchase, use, and dispose of goods.
What is consumer behavior?
What is food and skincare?
Instead of buying plastic bottles buy bottles made of...
What is glass?
Small plastics that make their way into humans and animals and harm them.
What are microplastics?
What is the best way to manage plastic waste?
What is don't use single use plastic?
Many goods are made of this type of plastic and it is the #1 plastic polluter found in the environment.
What is polyethylene?
About how much microplastics do humans consume per year?
What is 10 credit cards?
Instead of throwing materials out humans should...
What is reuse?
Large area in the pacific ocean that is known for high concentration of floating plastic debris.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
The organization responsible for monitoring and regulating waste in the United States.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
The amount of plastic the average American buys each year?
What is 562 pounds?
These can be bought at any gas station and contain microplastics.
What are cigarettes?
A natural fiber that is used to make string ropes and bags.
What is hemp?
About 100,000 marine animals die how?
What is getting entangled plastic debris?
This country in known as the first country to ban plastic bags?
What is Bangladesh?
The most common plastic object found in the ocean?
What are single use bottles?
This process involving sun, wind and waves contributes to breaking down everyday plastics into microplastics.
What is weathering?
What is seaweed-based packing?
the percentage of sea birds that have ingested plastic.
What is 90%?