1. Plastic waste

2. Where does plastic go?
What do you do with your used plastic when you are finished with it?
Pop bottles
Sweet wrappers
Yoghurt pots
Meat packaging

3. Have you bought any of these products over the last month? How many?

4. What happens to our plastic?

5. Keurig cup

6. Q1. How many years does it take for a plastic bottle to degrade fully?

9. Q2. Which countries produce the most plastic waste?
China
Thailand
India
USA

10. Which countries generate the most/least plastic pollution?

12. Q3. What percentage of household waste is plastic?
7 %
11%
17%
30%

14. Q4. On average how many plastic bags are used world wide every minute?
One thousand
One hundred thousand
One million
One billion

16. The story of the plastic bottle

17. Q5. What are most plastics made from?
Coal
Oil
Gas
Plastic

18. Q6. Recycling one plastic bottle saves enough energy to power one 60 watt light bulb for…
6 minutes
60 minutes
6 hours
One day

19. Where does the plastic end up?

20. Where does our waste end up?

21. Where does our waste end up?
Animals become trapped in litter and are unable to free themselves, sometimes suffocating

22. Where does our waste end up?
Approximately 100,000 animals such as dolphins, turtles, whales, penguins are killed every year due to plastic bags

23. Where does our waste end up?
Turtles eat the plastic
Plastic in their gut doesn’t break down
Turtles feel full and don’t eat…
Turtles starve to death

24. Where does our waste end up?
What’s wrong with this picture?

25. Even you…
Some people don’t care about the birds and the bees – they want their plastic!
But do you want plastic inside you?
Plastic breaks down into microplastic particles that can enter your body in your food!

26. What can we do?
Can you think of how we can reduce the damaging effects of plastic pollution?
At school?
At home?
In our country?

27. Plastic free for a month!
Could you live without buying plastic for a month?
Could you say no to:
Say no to plastic bottles
Say no to plastic bags
Say no to plastic drinks straws

28. The Plastic Free Challenge

29. What else can you do?
Ask your local shops to charge for plastic bags or stop giving so many out

30. What can you recycle?

32. What happens to plastic sent for recycling?

33. What happens to plastic sent for recycling?

34. Recycling – help save our planet
In your book make a poster to show why we should recycle. You need to include:
Information about plastic waste (this could be types, quantities, uses etc)
Where plastic comes from and what happens to it
What we should do with used plastic
Why it is important to reuse or recycle plastic