Tiny plastic bits
Microscopic poisoning
death for our ocean

Plastic Oceans

This report is going to be about plastics and how it is affecting the marine life and humans.

What is plastic made of?

Did you know that plastic is mostly made of natural things.

Plastic is made out of cellulose,coal, natural gas, salt and, of course crude oil.

Plastic vortexes

A vortex is a circle of rubbish is the sea with fishing nets at the bottom collecting little fish.

There is 5 plastic vortexes in the sea.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific trash vortex, spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan. The patch is actually comprised of the Western Garbage Patch, located near Japan, and the Eastern Garbage Patch, located between the U.S. states of Hawaii and California.

What is happening to marine animals

marine animals eat plastic that floats on the top of the water then they end up dieing from internal blockage.

Sea birds eat little pieces of plastic because it shines in the water.

Microplastics

Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long which can be harmful to our ocean and aquatic life.

If a plastic is 5mm long as big as a sesame seed it is called a microplastic.

Microplastics in Oceans Outnumber Stars in Our Galaxy by 500 Times.

Henderson Island

Henderson Island is a remote island in the South Pacific Ocean. It is home to 55 species that are found nowhere else on earth. On this island there is 38 million pieces of rubbish. No humans live on this island since it is so polluted and is only visited once or twice a year for studies.

How much plastic is made every year?

Do you realize how much plastic is made every year……. around 300 million ton

5 billion plastic bags are used every year. 160 thousand plastic bags are used every second.

About 300 million tons of plastic is made a year worldwide and only 10 percent is recycled. The rest ends up in the sea so around 7 million tonnes of rubbish ends up in the sea.

How much rubbish ends up in the oceans?

Every year 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans and that figure could increase by ten times in the future if something doesn't change.

A rubbish truck load of rubbish is dumped in the sea every minute.

United Nations conference

There was a big United Nations conference on world environment day. Here is the most concerning bits.

In 2025 when you catch 3 tons of fish 1 ton will be rubbish and by 2050 there will be more rubbish than fish.

More than 150 million pieces of rubbish is in the sea.

Donald trump pulled out of the 2015 Paris climate change agreement.

Solutions

Plastic degrades into little pieces so we need to stop that and think of Solutions.

My first idea is to make Mangonui school a waste free School and get the parents to try not use glad wrap.

My second idea is to go back to what they used in the olden days like instead of using plastic bags use paper bags.