Waste plastic poses a threat to animal survival, some animal were killed because they swallowed abandoned waste plastic products on land or in water.
STUDENT'S NAME: Yasemin 8th grade
30 Nisan 2022 Cumartesi
Plastics by the numbers (By Zahide)
Plastics by the numbers
Some key facts:
- Half of all plastics ever manufactured have been made in the last 15 years.
- Production increased exponentially, from 2.3 million tons in 1950 to 448 million tons by 2015...
- REFERENCE: https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/environment/article/plastic-pollution
- STUDENT'S NAME: Zahide (8th Grade)
What’s the problem with plastic pollution? ( by Rabia)
What’s the problem with plastic pollution?
According to a Greenpeace report (Plastic Debris in the World’s Oceans, 2006), the world produces 260 million tonnes of plastic per year, of which around 10% ends up in the ocean.
Despite what’s been assumed for many years, this plastic doesn’t simply vanish once it’s there.
Instead, it pollutes the marine ecosystem and is either mistaken for food by larger marine animals such as whales or fish, or continues to float in the water, creating a watery plastic soup.
We’ve all seen the images of whales washing up on beaches and coastlines around the world with their stomachs full of plastic, semi-decomposed birds filled with discarded bottle tops and lighters, and turtles with plastic carrier bags hanging out of their mouths.
The remaining 90% often isn’t recycled and gets sent to landfills where it can sit for hundreds or even thousands of years.
As plastic is an entirely synthetic material, it doesn’t biodegrade and will only degrade or break down into small pieces. As it does degrade, it releases toxins that can pollute the soil, harm the fragile ecosystem and even kill wildlife.
REFERENCE:https://naturaler.co.uk/quotes-on-plastic-pollution/
PLASTIC WASTE FOOTPRINT IN COUNTRIES (By EDANUR - 8th Grade)
HOW MUCH DO YOU WASTE PLASTIC?
I think it is more than you think.
Please, click on this link and check the PLASTIC WASTE FOOTPRINT in your country
24 Nisan 2022 Pazar
Where does plastic waste go?
The global plastic waste trade has also received more attention in recent years, as the debate about plastic pollution is escalating around the world. So what is the plastic waste trade and why is it being discussed?
Because plastics can remain undissolved in nature for long periods of time, plastic waste harms the environment around the world. It can cause death by accumulating in the stomachs of some animals or circulating in their bodies. In addition, it breaks down into small particles called microplastics and passes into water, animals and the human body from these two sources. It is not yet known how microplastics may affect human health.
In order to prevent this, the use of recycled plastic products has been increased instead of single-use plastic products.
Instead of being thrown away, these products are thrown into recycling bins and turned into reusable plastics in recycling facilities.
According to a study published in the journal Science Advances in 2017, 55 percent of plastics produced in 2015 were thrown away, 25.5 percent was incinerated at power generation facilities, and 19.5 percent was recycled.
However, some developed countries, which are among the countries that consume the most plastic in the world, do not have enough recycling facilities to provide this. Some governments also do not want to set up incinerators in their own country or region because of the air pollution of incinerators.
According to Eurostat data, 78.5 percent of plastic packages in the European Union (EU) are separated and collected (recovered), but only 41.5 percent of them are recycled within the EU borders.
Countries that import the most plastic waste in the world
Plastic waste is collected and disposed of in separate recycling bins in some countries. However, some countries collect paper, glass, metal and plastics in the same bins and send them mixed to other countries for recycling.
Sorting and recycling this mixed garbage is more difficult.
As the amount of garbage Turkey receives from abroad increases, this issue has started to come to the fore more frequently.
REFERENCE: https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler-dunya-57142579
STUDENT'S NAME: Hamza Efe ( 8th Grade )
HOW PLASTICS MOVE AROUND THE WORLD
How plastics move around the world
Most of the plastic trash in the oceans, Earth’s last sink, flows from land. Trash is also carried to sea by major rivers, which act as conveyor belts, picking up more and more trash as they move downstream. Once at sea, much of the plastic trash remains in coastal waters. But once caught up in ocean currents, it can be transported around the world.
On Henderson Island, an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Group isolated halfway between Chile and New Zealand, scientists found plastic items from Russia, the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and China. They were carried to the South Pacific by the South Pacific gyre, a circular ocean current.
Student's Name: Sümeyye (8th Grade Student)
Reerence:https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/plastic-pollution
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