Plastic pollution
​​Plastic pollution will have a lot of consequences like animals that will die and get endangered, and plastic will be everywhere in the nature and oceans and it will affect the life there negatively. Animals often think that plastic is food, so they eat it and then they get a fake feeling that they're full. This can make them starve, or even get choked. Also plastic needs a lot of energy to be produced. For producing one kilogram of plastic, you would need to kilograms of oil, according to NRK from the same video made in 2017. When all of the energy ​
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Our oceans and our nature is getting filled with plastic and garbage and it is affecting the biodiversity here on earth more than ever, and indirectly empowering the greenhouse effect. But why does this matter? And how much plastic really ends up in the ocean?
What is plastic pollution?
Platic pollution is when plastics ends up in the nature and does harm to different kinds of species and the nature itself. Every year, we humans use over 311 000 000 tons of plastic across the globe! This means that 591 tons of plastic gets used every minute globaly, and in the same time period, 15 tons of plastic gets released into the ocean, according to NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), in a video from 2017.
Photo by: Hermes Rivera
Photo by: John Cameron
Causes and consequences:
Plastic pollution is caused by plastic not getting recycled or thrown away correctly. Every piece of trash or plastic you throw or see on the street will most definetly end up in the ocean. This happens beacause of wind and rainfall dragging the plastic into the rivers and oceans that are nearby. And this also happens when plastic doesn't get recycled correctly. In some poor areas it is also quite common to throw trash directly in the nature, rivers and oceans nearby, beacause the inhabitants have nowhere else to throw it away.
neccesary to make plastic don't even get used properly, and rather affects the nature negatively, it has a huge impact on the climate and the earth. If you recycle, you will give the plastic you have used another life, and it would also do so that there is no need to produce a replacement for the plastic you have used.
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Photo of a boy walking between piles of trash and plastic
Questions answered on this page:
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What is plastic pollution?
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How much plastic do we use and waste?
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What are the consequences of plastic pollution, how does it affect wildlife?
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How can we prevent plastic pollution?
How can we stop plastic pollution?
Here is a list of a few things you can do to help prevent plastic pollution:
To stop plastic pollution we need to prevent plastic from getting in the nature and the oceans, we need to clean up the plastic that we already have polluted and we need to use less plastic
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Recycle!
By recycling you make sure that plastic gets taken care of and doesn't end up in
the nature!
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Use less plastic
You can do this by buying products that don't have plastic or that have less plastic. For example you can try to buy food that is stored in a glass
container, and not in a container
and containers!
store leftovers in glass jars
made of plastic, you can also
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Pick some plastic!
Go outside and pick up some plastic, by doing this you prevent that plastic goes into the ocean and potentially hurt other animals, you can pick up plastic whenever you see it on the street, and then throw it in a nearby garbage can!
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Waste
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Recycling