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BIRTH

RECYCLE

  • Plastic begins as natural gas and crude oil or hemp, corn and soy.
  • They are then bonded to make monomers, then polymer chains.
  • Chains become plastic pellets.
  • can be melted then molded into any shape.
  • Separated, shredded, washed, melted into plastic pellets again.
  • Best for environment.

LIFE

WORKS CITED

  • The plastic is then shipped to stores.
  • Distributed, bought, used, then discarded.
  • 1 million used every minute. -PO
  • Short productive life span.

OCEANS

Bryce, Emma. “What Really Happens to the Plastic You Throw Away?” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, Apr. 2015, www.ted.com/talks/emma_bryce_what_really_happens_to_the_plastic_you_throw_away.

Echevarría, Fidel, et al. “Plastic Debris in the Open Ocean.” PNAS, National Academy of Sciences, 15 July 2014, www.pnas.org/content/111/28/10239.

“Home.” 5Gyres.Org, www.5gyres.org/.

Serena_Solomon. “How Human Birth Control Is Affecting Fish Reproduction.” Azula - For the Love of Oceans, Azula - For the Love of Oceans, 30 Aug. 2017, www.azula.com/birth-control-fish-reproduction-2476310969.html.

“InfoGraphic: How Ocean Pollution Affects Humans.” Plastic Oceans Foundation, Dive.in, plasticoceans.org/infographic-ocean-pollution-affects-humans/.

“Is It Really Worth the Convenience? 6 Ways Plastic Is Harming Animals, the Planet and Us.” One Green Planet, 11 Apr. 2018, www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/how-plastic-is-harming-animals-the-planet-and-us/.

Landes, Lynn. “LANDFILLS: Hazardous to the Environment.” LANDFILLS, BioCylce Magizine, www.zerowasteamerica.org/landfills.htm.

National Geographic Society. “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” National Geographic Society, 9 Oct. 2012, www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/.

“Sign Petition to Stop the Sell of Plastic Water Bottles in Oregon.” OCEAN BLUE PROJECT, www.oceanblueproject.org/goingstrawless.html.

Tatum, Malcolm, and Bronwyn Harris. “How Is Plastic Made?” WiseGEEK, Conjecture Corporation, 10 Apr. 2018, www.wisegeek.org/how-is-plastic-made.htm.

US Department of Commerce, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 26 June 2014, oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/june14/mw126-garbagepatch.html.

“Why Tap Water Is Better Than Bottled Water.” National Geographic, National Geographic Society, 13 Mar. 2010, news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100310/why-tap-water-is-better/.

  • 8.8 million tons of plastic in ocean.
  • Caught in vortex. 5 major gyres
  • Harms marine wild life
  • Entangled or digest.
  • Moves up the food chain to us.

LANDFILL

  • 80% of water bottles and 99.5% -99.8 % of plastic bags end up in a landfill
  • 38 billion for bottles and 100 billion for bags. -NG
  • over 3,000 landfills in U.S.
  • release leachate and methane gas.
  • 400-1000 years to decompose.

AFTERLIFE

  • 3 options

1. Landfill

2. End up in ocean

3. Recycle

PLASTIC LIFECYCLE

BY KIMBERLY TURNBOW

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