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plastic pollution - Coggle Diagram
plastic pollution
ways to reduce waste
don't use plastic water bottles
carry reusable bags to go shopping
The top contributor to plastic waste is actually cigarette buds, so don't smoke!
donate unwanted items instead of throwing them away
try to create your good recycling habits
Remove waste before recycling
return items to store to recycle if not possible to do it yourself
how much lands in the ocean
ingestion of the plastics from animals
Microplastics!
suffocation of animals from plastics
animals get entangled in plastic debris
What is plastic and why do we need it
Plastic is a material that can be shaped or molded easily and can be synthetic, semisynthetic, or natural.
materials can come from natural sources like latex from tree sap, tar, and amber.
it is much cheaper and easier to make plastic from fossil fuels like crude oil and natural gas
Without plastic, many things will increase in price
how much is correctly recycled
How much is produced yearly
How is plastic actually recycled?
Can humans ever get to 100% of plastic's recycled and the details behind it
how bad really is plastic?
contributor to global warming as the process is a very carbon intensive activity
refining
manufacturing
extraction
reduce ecosystems ability to adapt to climate change
Non-biodegradable