Life Cycle
Common materials used before plastic.
What is glass, wood, rubber
H20 protected in a gelatinous film.
What is a edible water bottles?
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?
able to float
What is buoyant?
Do this to stop plastic pollution at the begginning of its life cycle.
What is invent new materials or ban plastic?
What is shrimp shells?
1955 Life magazine article "Throwaway Living" introduced this way to cut down household chores.
What is disposable items?
The reason you shouldn't burn plastic.
What is chemicals cause cancer?
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?
A new type of plastic made from two common ingredients that is biodegradable.
What is sugar and carbon dioxide?
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 stop plastic pollution at the end of its life cycle.
What is use an ERVIS ocean vacuum cleaner,
use barrier to collect plastic,
use wax worms and mealworms to biodegrade plastic?
A mix of natural ingredients and mycelia to make a sold mat that can be molded.
What is mushrooms?
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?
a mixture of plants and very small animals floating in fresh or saltwater
What is plankton?
The three parts of the plastic life cycle.
What is the Beginning, Middle, and End
This is a self-healing plastic alternative.
What is smart mud?
This is the problem with having NO waste management system.
What is trash flows into the ocean?
The number of major gyres in the oceans.
What is five?
can be molded into a variety of useful objects
What is malleable?