Plastic Pollution

How much time does it take for a plastic bottle to decompose?

• around 450 years

• around 50 years

• around 200 years

• around 5 years

Most of the plastic rubbish is collected and recycled.

• No, most of the rubbish is put in landfills or thrown into oceans.

• Yes, that's why we should recycle.

Plastic straws are very dangerous for sea animals.

• No, there are no straws in seas and oceans.

• Yes, they are very dangerous for animals, because they hurt them and people should stop buying them.

Microplastic is _____.

• large in size

• small in size

• very huge in size

• very tiny in size

As plastic travels through the ocean _____.

• it does not change in size

• it carries living organisms from one part of the world to another

• it poisons fish that eat it

• it eventually poisons humans who eat the fish

Plastic contains toxins. Fish eat the plastic. You eat the fish.

• You become more toxic.

• Your body doesn't become toxic

The amount of plastic in the oceans has become a ______ to the oceans.

• benefit

• disease

Plastic pollution is ______ habitats.

• improving

• destroying

• making nice

• making better

What are the three Rs

• regain

• reduce

• reuse

• recycle

Plastic bags can be harmful to sea turtles because..

• they think it is food

• they eat it

• they can get trapped in it

• they are not harmful