Pollution.
WALT describe an environmental problem and explain what people do to reduce its impact on our world.
Plastic pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after swallowing plastic or getting entangled in it.
When the rubbish goes in the landfill the rubbish can go into the ocean and sea animals like turtles are eating plastic bags because they think it is food. Another thing that is happening is that factories, active volcanoes and wildfires are polluting the air and can damage our food crops.
Firstly one thing that is happening around the world to help reduce problems caused by plastic pollution is that people are stopping the use of plastic shopping bags and now using cotton shopping bags instead. Many governments around the world are banning the use of plastic shopping bags.
Secondly another thing that is being done to reduce the problems caused by plastic pollution is that in some schools in NZ and around the world, many students are having less rubbish like chip packets and those kind of things in their lunch boxes. This means that instead of having plastic packaging in our lunch box, we can use reusable containers for our snacks and sandwiches.
Lastly to reduce the problem is that people are picking the rubbish up so there will be no more plastic in the oceans that means the oceans will be free of rubbish for the world.
So in conclusion to reduce the problems caused by plastic pollution, many people are sending their plastic rubbish to a recycling stations.
The plastics get sent to factories around the world to be used to make furniture, clothes and all sorts of things.
