Your issue: Ocean and plastic pollution
What is the issue?
My issue is about our environment and it also about plastic on the sea. There was 1 million bird die every year because of the plastic waste in the sea. Also in New Zealand's oceans are the most dangerous in the world for seabirds eating plastic waste.
How can we solve the issue?
We could make a video and tell people that don't throw or put a pile of rubbish on the sea. We could put a poster on each beach or sea so that they can look at it and put it on the right bin. Do not just put it on the side when no one is looking. Do the right thing when no one is watching.
What will we need to change?
What will we need to change?
What category does your issue fall under?
Social
Environmental
Ethical
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What specifically is your issue (e.g. Global Warming, Pollution of NZ waterways, etc)
Ocean and plastic pollution
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Why is this issue important to you?
Love surfing on the sea with my family.
Love fishing on the sea
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Your Focusing Questions
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Resource 1 (first website, video, or source of info)
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(Copy the website or video you use to get your information)
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Resource 2 (second website, video, or source of info)
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Resource 3 (third website, video, or source of info)
(Copy the website or video you use to get your information)
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Who/what does
_______(your issue)__ocean and plastic pollution _______
affect?
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I watch the video half of it because it was like 25minutes to finnsihe the video, The video was very interesting because of it about New Zealand long ago. I saw on that lot of water that cover by dirt.
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Covering more than 70 per cent of our planet, oceans are among the earth’s most valuable natural resources. They govern the weather, clean the air, help feed the world and provide a living for millions. They also are home to most of the life on earth, from microscopic algae to the blue whale, the largest animal on the planet. Yet we’re bombarding them with pollution. By their very nature—with all streams flowing to rivers, all rivers leading to the sea—the oceans are the endpoint for so much of the pollution we produce on land, however, far from the coasts, we may be. And from dangerous carbon emissions to choking plastic to leaking oil to constant noise, the types of ocean pollution humans generate are vast. As a result, collectively, our impact on the seas is degrading their health at an alarming rate. Here are some ocean pollution facts that everyone on our blue planet ought to know.
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I watch the video, the video was very interesting about the rubbish in the ocean. I saw that there was too many rubbish in the ocean and some of the animals die because of the waste plastic. There is 1 million sea bird die every year because of the waste.
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Question 1
(you need to use your own question here, use the matrix below to give you a starting idea)
How can we Reedus of plastic on the ocean?
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I saw this video was really helpful. We can reuse the plastic that its already recycle. There is a machine that recycled plastic can make useful plastic.
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New Zealand's oceans are the most dangerous in the world for seabirds eating plastic waste, according to research presented to Parliament's Environment Committee.
Forest & Bird says it shows the risk to seabirds from plastic rubbish is worse in the seas around our country than anywhere else in the world.
The rubbish that ends up in our seas has a far worse effect on seabird species than anywhere else in the world," says spokesperson Karen Baird.
Even though we don't have the most plastic pollution, we are unique in the world in having so many seabirds species in New Zealand. We also have the most threatened seabird species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world."
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No, it can be incredibly useful. Diabetics use it for their disposable syringes; arthritic patients have it for their replaced hips, and construction workers wear it to protect their heads. Without it, we wouldn’t have computers, mobile phones or cars. Essentially, it is vital. The big problem is single-use plastics and the quantities in which they are used. A plastic bag, for instance, is used on average for 15 minutes, yet could take 100 – 300 years to fragment.
When I watch this video it about plastic pollution. You can learn how and where does the plastic come from. Also, how can we reuse it?
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Question 2
(you need to use your own question here, use the matrix below to give you a starting idea)
How does the plastic get in the sea?
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Two-thirds of it comes straight from land-based sources: litter being left on the beach or washed down rivers and drains from litter being dropped in towns and cities. It comes from industry spills, badly managed landfill sites and bins near the coast or by being flushed down the loo. The remainder is lost at sea such as containers going overboard or lost fishing gear.
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Even if you live hundreds of miles from the coast, the plastic you throw away could make its way into the sea. Once in the ocean, plastic decomposes very slowly, breaking down into tiny pieces known as microplastics that can be incredibly damaging to sea life. 80% of plastic in our oceans is from land sources
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The plastic you put in the bin ends up in a landfill. When rubbish is being transported to a landfill, plastic is often blown away because it’s so lightweight. From there, it can eventually clutter around drains and enter rivers and the sea this way.
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Question 3
(you need to use your own question here, use the matrix below to give you a starting idea)
Can’t we scoop the plastic bag out of the sea
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Nice idea, but sadly impossible. For a start, only 1% of marine litter floats, with the vast majority sinking to the seafloor. Even if we tried to ‘scoop’ up that 1%, in international waters who would pay for it? To further complicate matters, the majority of it is microscopic.
There is no ‘away’ because even if miraculously we managed to get all of these pieces, most smaller than a grain of rice out of the sea, what would we do with it then? All we can do is stop using more.
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When I watch this video, there was so many information that you need to know. This video I watch is about they are showing us about the machine and telling us what they know about the plastic bag on the ocean.
World's first ocean plastic-cleaning machine set to tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch
| PLASTIC POLLUTION FACTS AND STATS
Plastic pollution can now be found on every beach in the world, from busy tourist beaches to uninhabited, tropical islands nowhere are safe.
Scientists have recently discovered microplastics embedded deep in the Arctic ice.
In 1950, the world’s population of 2.5 billion produced 1.5 million tons of plastic; in 2016, a global population of more than 7 billion people produced over 320 million tons of plastic. This is set to double by 2034.
Every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans.
There may now be around 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic pieces floating in the open ocean. Weighing up to 269,000 tonnes.
Plastics consistently make up 60 to 90% of all marine debris studied.
Approx 5,000 items of marine plastic pollution have been found per mile of beach in the UK.
Over 150 plastic bottles litter each mile of UK beaches.
Recent studies have revealed marine plastic pollution in 100% of marine turtles, 59% of whales, 36% of seals and 40% of seabird species examined.
100,000 marine mammals and turtles and 1 million sea birds are killed by marine plastic pollution annually.
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