Definitions
Small changes we can make to help look after the planet.
What is sustainability?
When plastic accumulates overtime and travels, invadeing ecosystems.
What is plastic pollution?
Nearly 700,000 microfibres get released in one load of _____!
What is laundry?
These marine invertebrates exist in colonies, providing home to a variety of aquatic animals, which are disrupted by plastic pollution.
What is coral?
Plastic is sustainable resource that humans can use forever! (true/false)
What is FALSE?
Extremely small pieces of plastic debris in the environment resulting from the disposal and breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste.
What are microplastics?
What is the name of the puppet who the narrator talked to?
____thousand garbage trucks worth of plastic dumped everyday!
What is 2 (thousand)?
In Canada, 6% is burned, 8% of plastic is recycled, and 86% goes to ____.
What are landfills?
The process of converting waste materials into reusable materials to prevent them from going into landfills.
What is recycling?
Decomposition breakdown due to sunlight and UV rays.
Piece of plastic that animals often get trapped in.
What are plastic rings (that hold cans together)?
Researchers estimate an average person consumes _____ worth of microplastics ANNUALLY!
What is 17 credit cards?
Canada has implemented bans on ______.
What are single-use plastics (e.g., paper bags and straws)?
It takes a plastic bag ____years to decompose?
What is 500 to 1000 years?
A generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, coal products, natural gas, derived gas, crude oil, petroleum products and non-renewable wastes
What are fossil fuels?
The type of plastic we use today was only made about ____ years ago!
What is 100 (years)?
There is an island of floating plastic located between Hawaii and Californa—the size of _____!
What is Texas?
___ tonnes of micro/nanoplastics transported thousands of kilometers a year by ocean air, sea spray, and fog.
What is 25 (tonnes)?
Plastics that are not recycled or properly disposed of can end up here.
What are landfills/oceans?
Extraction, Consumption, Landfills, Environment/Incinerator/Waste Trade
What is the life cycle of plastic?
Before plastic was made, humans used natural materials like _____.
What is wood or metal?
DAILY DOUBLE: Nearly _____ volunteers removed _____kg of plastic through the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup.
What is 800,000 (volunteers)? What is 1.3 million (kg of plastic)?
Canada has shipped nearly 4 million tonnes of plastic overseas, primarily to countries on this continent.
What is Asia?
Our names.
What is Chloe, Aish, and Ramya?