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Plastic pollution (Ghost nets (Could create jobs (Creates income (Positive…
Plastic pollution
Ghost nets
Lost/left in the ocean
Fish and sea life get caught in the nets
Could create jobs
Creates income
Positive benefits
Allows for unemployed people to work
Clears the water
Better environment for sea life
To dispose they got burnt
Creates pollution and effects community
Litter/other plastics
Makes its way into rivers and lakes
Communities live off some of these waters
Used for cleaning, cooking and just general drinking water
Plastic bottles
People buy plastic bottles
After the bottles are chucked out
They end up in the ocean
They get caught in gyres and create patches
Sea birds eat it
Sea life mistakes it for small fish
Fisherman catch the larger fish that mistake them
We eat the fish
The plastics effect us by putting toxins in
Mistakes them for jellyfish
Turtles try consuming them
They get recycled
squashed into boxes, melted, cleaned and re-used
They go to landfill
They poison the soil and water
Killing wildlife
Effects their food chain
Plastic bags
Plastic straws