Sunday, March 18, 2018

Animals endangered by plastic

SEA TURTLES

Like many other marine animals, sea turtles mistake plastic waste for food, sometimes causing blockages in their digestive system. Though the declining sea turtle populations in the oceans are due to a variety of reasons, plastic pollution plays a significant role

studies from 2013 suggest as many as 50 percent of sea turtles are eating plastic (which is more than ever before) , and dying because of it. Another study of the Loggerhead turtles found that 15 percent of the young ones examined had eaten such enormous amounts of plastic that their digestive systems were blocked up.

SEALS AND SEA LIONS

Marine life can become tangled in a variety of ocean rubbish including fishing nets, lines, and lures. Still, there are a number of seals and sea lions that become tangled in plastic bags or packing bands leading to injury and death.

In fact, plastic packing bands and rubber bands continue to deeply impact the Steller Sea Lion population. An eight-year study in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia recorded 88 sea lions entangled in plastic debris. These plastic packing bands and rubber bands can become so embedded in the animal that it can lead to severe infection and death.





SEA BIRDS

Plastic pollution leads to the deaths of millions of marine bird species each year. Arguably more so than other birds, the Laysan albatross has been deeply affected by plastic rubbish through their hunting techniques. When the albatross dives into the ocean to catch fish, squid or other food they use their beak to skim the surface, picking up plastic along the way.

Shockingly, an estimated 98 percent of albatross studied are found having ingested some kind of plastic debris. Once the plastic has been ingested, it causes an obstruction in the digestive tract and can puncture internal organs.

FISH

Fish, along with pretty much any marine mammal that brings in water through its gills, are increasingly at risk to microscopic plastic debris. A study performed at the University of Exeter UK suggested that microscopic marine rubbish could take up to six times as long for the animal to rid themselves of in comparison to swallowing he rubbish.

Of course plastic pollution deeply impacts species of fish, but unlike other animals, this is the one animal that’s also commonly eaten by humans. A number of studies suggest that the fish humans continue to consume have at one time or another swallowed plastic microfibers, including brown trout, cisco, and perch.

WHALES AND DOLPHINS

Like other marine mammals, whales often mistakes marine rubbish for potential food. In some species, similar to that of the albatross, the whales mouth is so large it unknowingly picks up plastic debris (a technique looked at in baleen whales). Studys performed after a number of whale strandings saw an increase in the amount of plastic rubbish found.

‍‍‍‍‍‍A study also found that hundreds of species of larger sea mammals have been negatively impacted by plastic pollution in the past two decades. The obstructions often puncturing and tearing the stomach lining, leading to starvation and death. According to Marine Pollution Bulletin, they are eating plastic rubbish at a rate as high as 31 percent, and in turn, 22 percent of those were at an increased risk of death.

Saturday, March 17, 2018


Do you always have spare paper that always goes in the bin?
Why not make RECYCLED PAPER as it is fun easy and saves our trees!!!!

Click on the link below to find out how to make it.


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wznaKj9ZDNSCVwA1uqxcDFC4zLpGXyP20dS-ENmF9ME/edit#slide=id.p

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

 R.T. Honourable Theresa May MP,
Prime Minister
Office of the Prime Minister,
10 Downing Street
Loundon
SWIA  2AA

Thursday 8th March 2018            

Dear Theresa May ,

Why  do we need all this plastic ? It is killing all the animals ; for instans have you seen  the  picture of the polar bear in a net or perhaps the picture of a turtle  eating a plastic bag or the dog with a plastic bottle stuck round its head or all the other photos  if you haven’t I suggest you do.

I have heard that you are trying to wipe out all the single use plastic in 25 years ,I  personally think that  25 years is way too long to  wait and that it should be gone in 1 year because by the time it has bean 25 years,I would be 36 and lots of other people would be dead plus  you don’t want  their  dying thought to be ,   “ why Theresa May why  25 years i never got to see all this happen ?!!” Did you know ,five - hundred and fifty - million  plastic straws  are thrown away  every day in the uk ? Also five - million tons of oil produced in the world every day ends up in the ocean .

I understand that plastic is an everyday part of life but do we need it ? You do know there is a difference from need and want  . How come we can’t just  use paper straws  or perhaps we could do what Norway do with their recycling scheme  ;  did you know they recycle ninety percent of their plastic .

I hope you make the right choice because ours and the future generations depend on you.

Kind regards Abbey
On behalf of coltishall primary school.

Why ocean pollution is a problem


Why ocean pollution is a problem

Once your plastic reaches the ocean it can go anywhere the current takes it, including into an animals stomach.

Here are some of the marine species most deeply impacted by plastic pollution
  • Sea turtles 🐢 
  • Seals
  • Seabirds 🐦 
  • Fish 🐠 
  • Whales and Dolphins 🐳 
 Some ways you could help are...

  • Try not to buy plastic straws as they are the most common reason animals are dying
  • Refuse plastic products that people offer you
  • Make sure you’re re-cycling the plastic that can actually be re-cycled
  • Don’t get plastic that you don’t actually need
  • DON’T LITTER
Shocking facts and pictures


Plastic


Spread the word about

Recycle
Reduce
Reuse
Refuse


Did you know some seals can get their necks caught around wire, rope and fishing nets?




Approximately 8 million metric tons of plastic entered the ocean last year!


A couple of weeks ago the worlds first non-plastic supermarket opened!

In Los Angeles every day 10 metric tons enter the ocean!!!


There is even plastic in the deepest and the darkest parts of the ocean.


It took a team of ten people , 8 hours to untangle a whale from 1km of rope!






# SAVE THE ANIMALS !






1.] Approximately five million tons of oil produced in the world each year ends up in the ocean.


2.]Seventy-eight percent of marine mammals are threatened by accidental deaths, such as getting
caught in fishing nets.

3.] Rainforests are being cut down at a rate of 100 acres per minute.

4.] Every day ships throughout the world discard 5.5 million pieces of rubbish into our oceans.

5.]100,000 turtles and marine mammals, such as dolphins, whales and seals, are killed by plastic marine litter every year around the world

6.]Plastics are the most common man made objects sighted at sea, with 18,000 pieces of plastic litter floating on every square kilometre of the world's oceans!

7.]Did you know iceland is the first supermarket to be single use plstic free

8.] More than 260 animal speices have been entangled in our old equipment like : fishing net,food pakeging , old toys and lots more.

9.] One million sea birds are killed by mirean litter every year.

10.] Do you know how long it takes for litter to break down in the ocean?
» Paper bus and parking tickets can take 2-4 weeks
» Orange and banana peel can take up to
»
» Plastic bags can take 10-20 years.
» Foam cups and tin cans are 50 years.
» plastic bottles are  450 years and glass bottles are million years.
» Fine fishing net are at least 600 years (much longer for heavier one.)
Terracycle

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-AqHIWR-TS5lrM7IFVw9PjSfCpC-JpcWFEoKcBb-VUI

Avocados and more

                                                 

                                  Deforestation and plastic

Did you know that deforestation is caused for many reasons, one of them being farming. One of the things that people farm on the land is avocados - although there are many other causes, such as the meat industry, palm oil, sugar and coffee plantations.  Using forest land is good for the farmers, and for avocado farmers for example, because they are becoming more popular to buy the farmers are upping prices, so the producers are making a larger profit.
                                                             

So try reduce the amount of avocados you are buying as you may be destroying the rainforest.  Or make sure you check if products are fair trade or rainforest alliance friendly.

Did you know that around 36 football fields of trees in the rainforests of our world are lost every minute, think how many trees that is!

The plastic problem

 As well as that 8 million tonnes of plastic go into the sea each year.

Check out this website to see how many plastic bottles are being purchased
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                Click on me


So when you go to KFC or anywhere else, refuse plastic straws, and use paper ones instead, or just don't use one at all.





Try be as enviromentaly friendly as possible. Don't throw away rubbish, recycle it or make eco bricks out of it, just dont let it destroy our planet.







Saturday, March 10, 2018

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Polyprint-Rackheath

Polyprint is a local business which helps you recycle: bubble wrap, cling film, carrier bags and much, much more, that you can’t recycle in the ordinary bin.  All you have to do is drop your ‘hard to recycle’ plastic films into their drop off bin, located in Rackheath.  

At Polyprint you can recycle:

Bags used to cover electrical appliances or furniture
Bread bags (shaken out)
Bin bags (clean)
Bubblewrap
Can & drink pack outers & joining rings
Carrier bags
Cling film (clean)
Compost sacks (clean)
Courier bags (without paper labels)
Dry Cleaning garment covers
Mailing wrappers (without paper labels)
Polythene recycling categories 2 and 4 (as marked on the film)
Thin bags used in supermarkets for fruit & veg etc (shaken out)
Toilet roll and nappy pack 

NOTE: Type 4 plastics are the stretchy film bags.  Unfortunately, the crinkly style bags are Type 5 plastic and are not accepted.  
E.g. - Bread bags and banana bags are type 4.
     Pasta bags, rice bags are type 5. 


At Polyprint you cannot recycle:

Plastic bottles
Cereal packet inners
Crisp packets
Compostable bags (of any type)
Greeting card wrappers (cellophane)
Magazine wrappers from book stalls (polypropylene)

Where is Polyprint?

Polyprint
Unit 7D
Wendover Road
Rackheath Ind Est
Rackheath
Norwich
NR13 6LH



Tel:+44 (0)1603 721807

Eco Bricks 

 Our school recommends eco bricks. Eco bricks are a way to recycle plastics that you usually can’t. We are going to work towards making something using them on the school field. If you turn your crisp packets and sweet wrappers into an ECO brick, you will be saving marine life from this happening to them. Here is the web link for eco bricks


Click this link to find out how reduce plastic in you home.
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-0iku2m1ISgFfNCCzrZ64YQKleD1AIFdZifgvO7kTQ

What beauty products terracycle accepts

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-AqHIWR-TS5lrM7IFVw9PjSfCpC-JpcWFEoKcBb-VUI

Go to this web address for information on what beauty products terracycle accepts

                                             Rainforests 




Another large issue that is global is the amount of rainforests we are destroying. Each day people are burning 200,000 acres of rainforest, as they do that they are stealing the homes of rainforest animals. 

How would you feel if your home as stolen for you because another person thought that they needed it?  To resolve the issue try use less paper, When you want to solve a quick maths problem jot it down on a scrap piece of paper, don’t waste trees by getting a new one out each time, or why not when you are telling your life story into your diary make sure you use every line and don’t waste space. 




Look at the difference between these two pictures. This is the difference we can make, the one on the left is where someone has destroyed hat could have been a beautiful rainforest, and the one on the right is what can happen if we try stop people chopping down the rainforest and if we stop wasting paper.


Terracycle recycles pens
Save your empty bullet point highlighters, felt tips or marker pens and drop them off at the school drop box.
Go to teracycle.co.uk  for more information about other ‘hard to recycle’ things that can be recycled with terracycle.        
Save your empty bullet point highlighters, felt tips or marker pens and drop them off at the school