Facts
- You can participate in cleanups
- You have to stop using the plastic.
- There is a toothpaste with no plastic. It is in a glass bin and you chew it then it will become a toothpaste.
- Old plastic bottle can become into a light bulb.
- There are edible water blobs that helps reduce plastic.
- There is a net called seabin and it collects garbage from the sea.
- There is a plastic bottle cutter that can turn plastic bottles into a very strong stripe.
- We have to say NO to plastic.
- You can make the Earth clean.
- Use 6Rs.
- There is a way to clean up the ocean. There is a floating pipe with 3m long wall underneath and it moves by wind, wave and current. It stops plastics from escaping underneath. It catches the plastic along the way. Boyan Slat invented it.
- Reduce our single-use plastics.
- In some parts of the world, using plastic is illegal.
- Rwanda is the cleanest country.
Sources
- Wright, Thomas. “How Can Indonesia Win against Plastic Pollution?” The Conversation, http://theconversation.com/how-can-indonesia-win-against-plastic-pollution-80966
- The Plastic Problem by Rachel Salt Firefly Books (Epic)
- YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfY30uNXkvo
- US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA’s National Ocean Service. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/marinedebris/plastics-in-the-ocean.html
- YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HubIBlnvko&list=PL8yrWxAoYaB5HqoxeygDpCX5tl4YgyBiG&index=11&t=0s
- YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CdhLMV7Es&list=PL8yrWxAoYaB5HqoxeygDpCX5tl4YgyBiG&index=106&t=0s
- YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-dpv2xbFyk&list=PL8yrWxAoYaB5HqoxeygDpCX5tl4YgyBiG&index=109
- YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RLrTCVmLCc
- YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Our5CZz5qoU&feature=youtu.be
- Bogle, Jeff. “How Rwanda Became One of the Cleanest Nations on Earth.” Reader’s Digest, https://www.rd.com/culture/rwanda-cleanest-nation/