Life Cycle
Plastic is made from these.
What is natural, organic materials such as cellulose, coal, natural gas, salt and, of course, crude oil?
The most common example of #1 plastic
What is a water bottle?
This is how gyres affect plastic in the ocean.
What is bring plastic together and help break it down?
These three things break down plastic in the ocean.
What is sunlight, wave action and salt?
a mixture of plants and very small animals floating in fresh or saltwater
What is plankton?
Do this to stop plastic pollution at the beginning of its life cycle.
What is invent new materials or ban plastic?
The worst of the worst kind of plastic this is commonly found as single-use coffee cups and take-out food containers
What is Polystyrene or Styrofoam™ ?
1955 Life magazine article "Throwaway Living" introduced this way to cut down household chores.
What is disposable items?
Dr Andrea Neal used this tool to collect plastic debris in the ocean.
What is a manitrol?
something lasts a long time (won’t break down)
What is durable?
Do this to reduce plastic pollution in the middle of its life cycle.
What is reuse it or recycle it?
Yogurt containers and medicine bottles belong to this group of plastics.
What is #5 Polypropylene (PP)?
The reason scientists can't find so much of the plastic in the oceans.
What is most plastics have become microplastics (tiny little pieces of plastic)?
SINOPEC had bags of these break open in a typhoon off of Hong Kong.
What are nurdles?
circular or spiral motion
(rotating ocean current)
What is a gyre?
Do this to get rid of plastic in oceans. Must get all 3
What is use an ocean vacuum cleaner,
use barrier to collect plastic,
use wax worms and mealworms to biodegrade plastic?
This soft flexible plastic that is often used as: bread bags, frozen food bags, and plastic shopping bags.
What is #4 Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)?
This is how plastic ends up on our dinner plate.
What is plankton eat plastic, fish eats plankton, people eat the fish?
When we go to fast food resturants it is hard to find wrap in anything but this.
What is plastic?
able to float
What is buoyant?
Who and what is harm from plastic pollution?.
People, animals, and oceans (earth)
This group of plastics are generally tougher to recycle and are not universally collected in local recycling programs.
What is #7 Other Plastics?
This is the problem with having NO waste management system.
What is trash flows into the ocean?
Germany made this law about plastic manufacturing.
What is collection and recycling programs?
can be molded into a variety of useful objects
What is malleable?