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Plastic is a HUGE problem. Find out how to stop it on Juliet's page.
By 2050, scientists predict that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish and every seabird species on the planet will be eating plastic trash. Only 1 in 5 plastic bottles get recycled. Plastic never goes away, it just breaks into microplastics. Americans throw out more than 30 million tons of plastic a year, and only8% gets recycled. 50 to 80 percent of sea turtles who die have been found with trash in there stomach. People estimate that Americans use about 500 million plastic straws a day. A million plastic bottles are bought around the world each minute. Many whales and dolphins have been found washed up on shore with their stomachs full of plastic bags and other plastic trash. there are more than 5 trillion pieces of trash floating in our oceans.
Plastic is bad enough on its own, but sometimes, when you recycle it, it sometimes gets burned instead which adds to air pollution.
So stop using single-use plastics of any sort!
Sea turtles eat plastic bags thinking they are jellyfish then die from hunger because they think they're full but they're not. Once it gets in their stomach it get stuck, then they die.
Plastic pollution is bad enough but when you make plastic it adds to global warming!!! Not all plastic is bad. Only single-use plastics are very bad. There are five gigantic garbage patches. One of them is the size of Texas! Animals eat plastic because it looks like food then they die. Six pack rings trap animals so they starve.
The amount of oil used to make plastic each year is enough to power 1 million cars around the world.
Plastic is thrown in the ocean every day!
People throw trash on the street/sidewalk.
Cigarette buts are a huge problem plus they add to global warming!
Plastic bags are also very bad and they're the second worst plastic problem.
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