Plastics
Add the following to your Plastics doc each day as noted. Add the date completed. Before you submit the final project, delete all of the instructions and dates. I cannot comment on this page, so I will do so in the text on your page, in bold. Please make the edits I suggest and after I re-read your work, I will delete my comments.
March 17, 2020
- Add a definition of plastic. Describe the different types of plastic.
March 18, 2020
- Add 5 photos of disposable items around your home that are made of plastic. Resize the photos so they don’t take more than 1 page. Tell what the product is, if it’s not obvious from the photo.
March 19, 2020
- Add links to 3 unbiased* sources that support the use of disposable plastics as not harming the environment.
March 20, 2020
- Add, beneath each of March 18th’s links, an annotated bibliography** for each of the 3 sources.
March 23, 2020
- Add 3 unbiased sources that show the harm disposable plastics do to the environment.
March 25, 2020
- Add, beneath each of March 23rd links, an annotated bibliography** for each of the 3 sources.
March 26, 2020
- Add a description of the plastic recycling process. What are the steps? Cite your source.
March 27, 2020
- How much plastic is currently being recycled? Where is it being recycled?
March 30, 2020
- What happens to the rest of the plastic? Where does it end up?
April 1, 2020
- What products are currently made from recycled plastic? Describe them and provide links to examples.
April 2, 2020
- Choose one product (could be from your photos) and brainstorm ways that product could be delivered to consumers without plastic (or using less plastic.)
April 3, 2020
- Refer back to the photos of products you found in your home.
- list ways you could reduce your use of disposable plastic
- Identify challenges you might face with each solution
*Unbiased source - in this case, a company that sells or manufactures plastics, or an organization that promotes one side of an issue, for example, PETA.
** Annotated bibliography: include
A link to the page with the information
2 sentences describing the infformation found at the link
A sentence telling speciffically why the link is relevent (so…. NOT “The link is about how plastic is bad.”