Plastic Pollution

How can we help to reduce plastic pollution?

• We should use paper/cloth bags.

• We should use less plastic.

• We should refill our drinking bottles not buy new ones.

• We should avoid (unikać) plastic or styrofoam containers.

• All answers are correct.

Juice and milk boxes can be recycled easily.

• Yes, because they are made of cardboard.

• No, becayse they are made of plastic+cardboard and it's difficult to separate them

Most of the plastic rubbish is collected and recycled.

• No, 90% of trash is put in landfills or thrown into oceans.

• Yes, that's why we should recycle.

"Micro-" as in "microplastics means what?

• cheap

• big

• many

• small

Plastic never fully biodegrades. The word "biodegrades" means what?

• dies

• break down

• pollutes

• hurts

Plastics are made from fossil fuels. An example of a "fossil fuel" is what?

• oil

• paper

• rubber

• animal bones

True or False: Ocean currents can move plastic from one part of the world and bring it to a totally different area on the planet.

• True

• False

What happens to plastic waste?

• It is a biodegradable material so it eventually disintegrates

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

• There is no such thing as plastic waste, all plastic is recycled

• It is dumped in the ocean for fish to eat

"Bakelite" was the first synthetic plastic ever produced. Which year was it invented in?

• 1805

• 2005

• 1907

• 1915

Where does the majority of plastic waste end up?

• Oceans

• Burned for energy

• Landfills

• Recycled