Paper vs Plastic Which one is better?. Paper Bags It takes about 13 to 17 trees to make 1 ton of paper Making paper bags creates 70 percent more air pollution.

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Recycle We must recycle.

Advertisements

RESPECT for the Environment. We only have ONE planet.

Plastic Is Poison By Layal Barakat. G 7E Qatar Academy.

Photodegradable Shopping Bags Presentation to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on the Environment.

The reasons of ecological problems. It’s known that polluted air, water and land are harmful to plants, animals and people. When litter.

How Recycling Helps By: Student Name. Aluminum Recycling Facts An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now! There is no.

Margaret Mead “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

By:fatima G4B Oil ll spills. An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

Environmental Impacts The Impact of Plastic Bags in the Environment.

PAPER OR PLASTIC? Kate Pinter vs.. Outline  Consumption  Production  Pollution  Recycling  Biodegradable?  Negatives of both  What should we do?

KEEPING OUR PLANET CLEAR Too Much Waste Peple throw away too much waste. In some countries, there is not enought space to put any more waste underground.

Plastics and People Lawrence Alex Wu/Marine Photobank. Ted Raynor/Marine Photobank.. © Ziggy Livnat 08/Marine Photobank.

What happens to plastic bottles when we throw them away?

Rule 6: Did you know that your plastic bag that you used when you shop and you threw away is in the landfills? And it blows into the water?

Ecological problems. Б Pupil: Bagdasarian H. Teacher: Anosova J.K.

GO GREEN Mr. P’s Class Earth Day. GO GREEN [#1] Fruit & veggies typically travel how far to get to your grocery store: A.1,500 miles (on average) B.15,000.

By: Oscar Cardenas. Why Recycle? Saves natural resources- By making products from recycled materials instead of virgin materials, we conserve land and.

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYLE YOU are inheriting this Earth! It is up to you to help make it a safe place for you to grow up in!

By: Brittany Loving Environmental Science. What can plastic to do the earth? Plastic bags and bottles, like all forms of plastic, create significant environmental.

Recycling Energy and waste management. Types of recycling  Closed loop recycling: plastic bottles becoming new plastic bottles; when the material collected.

T HE A WARENESS O F R ECYCLING W ASTE Adrienne, Rosie, Gita and Grace.

Talent 21 by: Sam Adamo Proposal I am going to see how I can reduce the use of plastic bags and start using cloth bags.

WE DON’T KNOW THE WORTH OF TREES UNTIL THEY’RE GONE by: Emma Hall.

My Carbon Footprint Recycling By Jake Guglielmino.

Recycling and saving trees By: Erica Spear. YOU WILL BE INTERESTED!(HOPEFULLY) The next following slides will be reason as to why it is important to save.

Talent 21 recycling project Macgyver hay Period2 Mr aleszczyk.

1.Data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shows that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed.

 Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water  The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million.

Vehicles are the worst source of air pollution. Walk the shortest distances. Use public transport for the longest.

Biodiversity and Conservation 5.2- Threats to Biodiversity part 2 SPI 4 Predict how various types of human activities affect the environment. SPI 5 Make.

By Kylie Schultz Plastic items. I think everyone should use less plastic.

Why Recycling is Important Monroe Area High Future Business Leaders of America.

人教课标版高二选修 6 Unit 4 人教课标版高二选修 6 Unit 4. Writing.

How can we help to conserve the environment

The Facts You Need to Know

SEA TURTLES MUNCHING ON OUR GARBAGE By Xavier Barajas.

Pollution of freshwater (drinking water) is a problem for about half of the world's population. Each year there are about 250 million cases of water-

NOTHING IS FOREVER NOTHING IS FOREVER. WE CAN’T DRINK THIS WATER WE CAN’T DRINK THIS WATER.

 To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.  Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year.

Somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year.

Social Awareness Annabel Gonzalez Leonardo Ruiz. Our “Life Writing” Purpose? Raise awareness about: 1)Effects of recycling.

Pollution Why is pollution everywhere in the world?

Plastic Bags By: Ariel Anariba. A journey of infinite possibilities 1.Threaten the life of marine species millions tons each year 3.10 billions.

How Can We be Doctors and Keep Our Earth Healthy?.

The Benefits of Recycling By SPC. Prater, Nyan (U.S. Army)

You and the Environment What do you know? Start by listing everything you think of as a resource in 1 minute and 30 seconds.

Biodiversity: How Many Species on the Planet?  E.O. Wilson-1.4 million species-4 million species  But some scientists say it may be 4-40 million.  Why.

Our Earth, Our Home A Collection of Earth Facts Smiley Spring Sing 2014.

ECOLOGY. TO HURT THE EARTH IS TO HURT YOURSELF.

1 Recycling at HHS. 2 PAPER ALUMINUM PLASTIC 3 4 CAFE & ATRIUM RECYCLING CENTERS Glass bottles may also be recycled in plastic bins in classrooms.

Petitcodiac River Ecosystem By: Alex Tucker and Jake Leger.

Paper bags vs. plastic bags: which is really better?

Plastic is taking over the world! By Aliza Amiel.

课标人教实验版高二 Module 6 Unit 4. Writing READING TASK Answer key for Exercise 1: Two of the most common and dangerous litter: cigarette butts and plastic.

Earth Week 2010 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repeat, Rejoice REPEAT.

Say NO To Plastic Bags.

Go to engineering notebook How does the design process relate to math problem solving?

“Green” Bags for a “Green” Earth

课标人教实验版高二 Module 6 Unit 4.

The environmental problems

MARINE PLASTIC POLLUTANTS

Reading and Writing Task in workbook

Our world without trees

Caring for the environment

Module 6 Unit 3 Language in use

Nutrient Cycles and Recycling

Plastic Bag Ban.

Why we must push for no more single use plastic bags

Presentation “ THE EARTH IS IN DANGER”

GOOD THINGS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Presentation transcript:

Paper vs Plastic Which one is better?

Paper Bags It takes about 13 to 17 trees to make 1 ton of paper Making paper bags creates 70 percent more air pollution and 50 percent more water pollution than making plastic bags Around 10 billion paper bags are used annually in the US Paper bags don’t take much longer than plastic bags to degrade Recycling paper bags often consumes more energy than it does to make a new bag

Plastic Bags Over 1 trillion plastic bags are used every year worldwide. About 1 million plastic bags are used every minute. Plastic bags remain toxic even after they breakdown The extremely slow decomposition rate of plastic bags leaves them to drift in the ocean. Plastic bags cause the death of many marine animals. It takes 20 to a thousand years to degrade plastic bags

Question How many plastic bags are used each year Worldwide?

Answer Between 500 billion and 1 trillion

Question How many species of sea life die due to plastic bags?

Answer Around 200 species

Question On average, how many trees does it take to make 1 ton of paper bags?

Answer 13 to 17

Question How many paper bags are used each year in the US?

Answer Around 10 billion

Video

Jeopardy!!! jeopardylabs.com/play/paper-vs-plastic

Thank you for watching!