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Why Switch to Plastic plants that only run on recycled plastic and electricity ?

Why Switch to Plastic plants that only run on recycled plastic and electricity ?. By Tucker Johnson, Jack Reivis , and Jasmin. What is the problem?. Source: http://www.whatsarahsees.com/dare-to-drink-find-our-plastic-century-at-cas-june-3rd-and-june-10th/.

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Why Switch to Plastic plants that only run on recycled plastic and electricity ?

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  1. Why Switch to Plastic plants that only run on recycled plastic and electricity? By Tucker Johnson, Jack Reivis, and Jasmin

  2. What is the problem? Source: http://www.whatsarahsees.com/dare-to-drink-find-our-plastic-century-at-cas-june-3rd-and-june-10th/ Plastic isn’t being recycled efficiently and it is entering the ecosystem. Look at this sad picture in a dump  Lets zoom in Lets zoom in again

  3. Over time more plastic has been made but the percent of the total amount of plastic that was recycled drop tremendously. • Source: http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/progressiveinvestor.issue/id/76er

  4. How plastic affects the ocean • Most of the marine debris is composed of plastics such as water bottles and soda bottles • Plastic bags are one of the 12 most common items to be found in coastal cleanups • Over 1.4 billion pounds of trash find it’s way into the ocean every year, most of it is plastic, and because of that 1 million sea animals die every year.

  5. How plastic affects us • Plastic bottles take 1000 years to decompose completely, which means that EVERY PIECE OF PLASTIC EVER PRODUCED STILL EXISTS TODAY, and that in 30 years we might be living on a landfill • 4 gallons of oil is needed to make 1 plastic bottle- oil that can be burned to create energy.

  6. How plastic affects the land • It makes huge landfills that let chemicals and poisons into the ground.

  7. How plastic affects animals • Animals eat plastic, thinking it is food, then it kills them because of the chemicals used to make the plastic.

  8. Buy our plastic to help the environment, the land, animals, the oceans, and YORSLEF!!!!

  9. Pros and cons of buying our plastic Pros You help humanity by getting rid of trash so we do not have to live on a landfill in 10 years You will conserve fossil fuels You will help animals because less animals will eat the plastic and die

  10. Pros and cons of buying our plastic Cons There aren’t any!!!

  11. Sources • www.ted.com • www.planitvarner.com • www.endangeredspecies.com

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