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Which degrades faster, plastic or paper?

• Plastic

• Paper

Plastic was first used for food packaging as recently as 1941.

How many years ago is that?

• 60 years

• 70 years

• 80 years

• 90 years

Roughly how many years does it take a plastic bag to degrade completely

• 1 year

• 3 years

• 5 years

• Between 10 and 1000 years

What happens to plastic waste?

• Sinks to the bottom and gets buried under the sand

• It never fully goes away, it just breaks into little pieces

• Dissolves and decomposes in the water

• It is dumped in the ocean for fish to eat

Plastic floating on the ocean surface breaks up faster than buried plastic

• Because it is exposed to UV light

• Because it gets warmer

• Because of the waves