One of the worlds biggest modern day problems… Plastic. Plastic in our ocean is a major environmental problem. Today I am going to talk about ways to eliminate plastic from our ocean. In Costa Rica we were on holiday and saw a sign saying beach cleanup. We went and did the beach clean up and picked up 40 bags of plastic in 1 hour!!
Plastic is a major problem because; it takes a long time to decompose, there is so much plastic and most people don’t know what impact plastic has on the environment. Plastic bottles, plastic straws and plastic bags are the most common uses of plastic. These are really bad for the environment because they are usually single use items. Many of these end up in our ocean NOT in landfills!!
Here are some ways we can get the plastic out of the ocean. The simple way to get rid of plastic is to stop making it completely. But another idea is to invent a “plastic detector” that can detect plastic and suck it up. When the plastic is picked up you could burn it in power stations or melt it in to new things. So we could reuse the plastic and melt them in to bricks or fence posts.
I think the two best ways to get rid of plastic is to… one way is to put a ransom on plastic for example 1 kilo of plastic is worth $1. They are starting to do that already in other country’s, with plastic bottles. In Australia plastic bottles are worth 10c each. So that gets people wanting to recycle ♻️. The second idea is to burn it in power stations. They heat it to a really hot temperature and put the plastic in the furnace and burn the plastic. The reason why they heat it so hot is because so the plastic does not create smoke.
Do you want all the worlds fish species to die, do you want the ocean to be so toxic that we can’t swim in it.. the answer is NO. Start helping the environment, if everyone picked up 1piece of plastic a day for a year we would get rid of 8 billion pieces of plastic a day!!
Jake
