Introduction Of Plastic Pollution Project

Due to lack of development of a culture of pollution control there has resulted a heavy backlog of gaseous liquid and solid pollution in environment.
Introduction of plastic pollution project. Think of a creative art project you can do to reuse your plastic trash. How can each of us help stop plastic pollution. Meaning of plastic pollution. Plastic bottles bags and microbeads in the earth s environment that adversely affects wildlife wildlife habitat and humans.
For the jar of water dirt and bits of plastic will suffice. Pollution control is a recent environmental concern. After listening to the ted talk on the surprising solution to ocean pollution and the abc new s article on plastic and how it affects our ocean it s your turn to do some more research on the topic of plastic pollution to prepare a report on. According to the u s.
These pollutants cause environmental degradation and also affect different living organisms and their habitats negatively. For more ideas see activity 28 air plants and activity 36 pollution search in plt s prek 8 environmental education activity guide. It is very economical and easily available. Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the marine environment yet estimates of the global abundance and weight of floating plastics have lacked data particularly from the southern hemisphere.
Plastics that act as pollutants are categorized into micro meso or macro debris based on size. Epa only 46 of plastics float. For each r there can be a creative activity to show how it can be done. A 1 plastic pollution is on the rise because nowadays people are using plastic endlessly.
It has to be cleaned. Plastics are inexpensive and durable and as a result levels of plastic production by. Pollution is a necessary evil of all development. Remember to have jars of clean water air and snow so students can compare the clean ones with the polluted ones.
Moreover plastic does not dissolve in the land or water it stays for more than hundred years contributing to uprise of plastic pollution. An introduction to plastic pollution as a topic. Any ideas on how we. Choose a country to focus your research on to find out more about the problem of plastic pollution in that country and any things they have done to.
Therefore these clean up efforts cannot reach more than half of the plastic discarded in our oceans. Plastic pollution is the introduction of plastic products into the environment which then upset the existing ecosystems in different ways. However these projects only target plastic pollution on the surface. Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles e g.
Plastic pollution this module1 is intended for elementary or secondary education teachers interested in teaching their classroom about plastic pollution and for anyone interested in learning about the impacts of plastic pollution on our environment and society and actions we can take to diminish this problem.