it’s a plastic world beyond recycling. did you use any plastic today?
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It’s A Plastic World
Beyond Recycling
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Did you use any plastic today?
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Where does plastic come
from?
Lets find out more!
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During the time of dinosaurs, swamps full of animals, peat and plant life were buried and began decomposing
The Path to Plastic
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These were then buried
deep (10,000 feet) with layers of sediment
(broken down larger rocks)
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Heat, time and pressure then turned
the organisms into fossil
fuels (petroleum)
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Fossil Fuels?
• Release energy when burned• Eg. Coal, oil and natural gas• Meet 85% of our global
energy demands• Also known as petroleum or
crude oil
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What do we use fossil fuels for today?
The products we use today are available because of a process that took millions of years ago
•Transportation
•Heating
•And PLASTIC!
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The Process of Plastic
1.Petroleum is drilled and shipped through pipes to be made into ethane, propane and others
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The Process of Plastic
2. With VERY HIGH heat, fuels are mixed with chemicals to create FLUFF
• The fluff looks like laundry detergent and can be packed into bales
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The Process of Plastic
3. The fluff is melted with additives and made into little pellets.
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The Process of Plastic
4. The pellets get shipped to factories where they melt and mold the pellets into plastic products. Other chemicals are added for colour and texture.
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What usually happens to
plastic when we are done
using it?
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Some can be recycled…
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plastic recycling
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Why should we recycle plastic?
• Reduce our fossil fuel use
• Reduce the chemicals needed to produce fluff
• Make pellets from used plastic materials
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What happens to the plastic that doesn’t
get recycled?
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Can the Earth decompose our plastic products?
No!
The earth can only decompose and reuse things that are natural, or from the earth
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What happens to plastic that doesn’t get
recycled?• Plastic made from fossil fuels never
disappears, but breaks down (photo degrades) into smaller and smaller pieces.
• As the plastic breaks down, toxins and chemicals are released into the environment
• Plastic pellets, bags, toys, toothbrushes and more ends up on our land and in our oceans…
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Lets see what really happens.. …
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What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
• A slowly moving, spiral of currents called the North Pacific Gyre.
• Is like a plastic ‘soup’ 30 meters deep.
• Known as the worlds largest garbage dump.
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Some beaches have garbage 5 to 10 feet deep
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THINK– Did you know about the plastic island? How
do you feel about it?
Let’s THINKPAIRSHARE
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PAIR
– Who do you think is responsible for this ocean waste?
– How can we contribute to the solution in our own lives and in our community?
– How can we inform people about plastic?
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SHARE
What can we do?
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Let’s hear more solutions from a Green Gorilla!!
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