Plastic Problem

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Plastic Problem
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• Look around you, and what do you see? If you are
  in or around a modern building, vehicle or other
  man-made structure then the chances are that you
  will be able to see some plastic. I can see a
  printer, a scanner, some speakers, a desk tidy,
  CD cases, a some video cases, a moulded plug, a
  keyboard, mouse and monitor case (not to mention
  plastic bas and bottles!) Can you imagine these
  things without plastic existing? If we were to
  remove plastic from our world then modern society
  would, literally, fall apart. The use of oil,
  synthetic chemicals, plastics and high technology
  form a cluster of things around which we have
  built modern society, and which most of us could
  probably not imagine living without. So what is
  the problem with plastic?

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Plastic is fantastic. It's versatile, durable,
waterproof, convenient and very, very cheap. BUT.

• A thin plastic carrier bag will last for anything
  from 20 to 1000 years a drainpipe or childs
  toy, probably longer and we will not know
  exactly how long until far in the future, by
  which time much of our planet will surely be
  choking on plastic waste.

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They turn up everywhere..

• Polluting the environment
• Killing wildlife
• See the following examples highlighted by the
  Daily Mail newspaper

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Many supermarkets are now trying to reduce the
number of plastic bags their customers use
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Your Task

• Research what different supermarkets are doing to
  discourage the use of plastic bags
• Use the internet to research how different
  countries have tackled this problem
• you may like to start with
• China
• France
• Uganda