Did you know that 80% of the rubbish in the ocean is from land? Of course, the tree's and bushes can't do that but the humans can. That means that the 80% of the rubbish that is in the sea is because of us because we are making the rubbish and we can't be bothered putting it in the bin and so it goes in the sea and marine animals eat them. Then they DIE! If I were president and I knew that someone threw rubbish in the sea and watched an animal eat the rubbish. Then they will be taken to court and going to prison! But I don't think that will happen so I'll just keep dreaming. Anyway, in inquiry, we have been learning about rubbish and we had to go into our inquiry groups. We did a mini-inquiry subject and my group did it about plastic. I have done mine and I have taken points while I was reading facts and we had to skim and skim through the text because we don't want to add a whole paragraph. This is how my noting looks like! Hope you enjoy! What would you do to stop the rubbish and things going into the ocean?
- 1-Did you know that 160,000 plastic bags are used every second! A lot, right?
- 2-Plastics can end up in rivers or oceans since they are light and get carried by the wind and end up in rivers that lead to the sea.
- 3-Plastic has killed lot’s of marine animals and we don’t care about them because if we did then we wouldn’t litter and make plastic things.
- 4-According to Google, it says that 80% of litter in the sea comes from land!
- 5-Did you know that in 2008, a type of whale called the Sperm Whale was found on a beach in California that was dead but worst of all was that it had 22 kilos of plastic inside its stomach!
- 6-Did you know that in the north Pacific ocean there is 6x more plastic that planktons!
SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEMS!
- 1- Instead of using 160,00 plastics, we could just use bags like shopping bags instead of using plastic, just use shopping bags!
- 2-How about we ban plastic bags because it takes longer to break down and it is also killing marine animals because they think it’s food.
- 3-If we actually cared about our marine animals then we wouldn’t let the plastic get to the sea and I think that we should have like a machine that separates the plastic and we should have lie people on duty who stay by rivers and things and make sure there isn’t any plastic that might get to sea or rivers and lakes.
- 4-80% of the litter in the ocean is from land and it is because we are lazy and we can’t be bothered picking our rubbish up.
- 5-The reason why the whale died is because of the plastic that the whale ate but it ate 22 killos of plastic and that plastic was ours. Our plastic has killed whales and many other animals.
- 6-The reason why there are more rubbish is because even though they get taken to the andfill, since plastics are light, they can just get carried to the ocean.
Hi Parwin,
ReplyDeleteWhat interesting points you have made notes about as you researched. I really enjoyed reading some of your solutions. Our family is trying to remember to take shopping bags with us when we do the groceries so that we aren't getting plastic bags. I do find that the amount of plastic around food is also a big problem. I get really annoyed when I find apples or courgettes in plastic. They don't need to be. What do you feel when you see plastic?
:) Mrs S