Sycamore Class

# 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
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» 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.)