The document discusses the issues of plastic waste, including that plastic is cheap and lightweight but takes a very long time to break down in landfills. It notes some alternatives to plastic like cardboard and paper bags. It also explains that some plastics contain harmful chemicals and lists some biodegradable plastic options. Finally, it discusses various actions that individuals, companies, and governments can take to reduce plastic pollution like reuse, recycling, education campaigns, and persuading industries to use alternative materials.

1. Plastic Waste
By Tian Ru and Jeremy

2. Why are we using plastic?
Attractive.
Cheap
Light
Non-Rusting

3. What other products can be used besides plastic?
Cardboard
Paper Bags
Cloth Bags
Newspaper
Milk cartons

4. What harmful products are used in some
plastics?
Polymer
BPA
PET

5. Why are some plastics bio-degradable?
No Polymers.
Pea starch.
Biopetroleum

6. How can we prevent plastic being used or being
dumped into the wrong place?
Make signs
More rubbish bins around
Persuade plastic industries

7. How can we prevent polluting our landfills with
plastic?
Reuse plastic
Persuade people
Showing the results to the public
Cardboard boxes

8. What are the public doing to prevent the over use of
plastic?
Using recycling bins
Cardboard boxes for loading

9. What are the government doing and city planners
doing to prevent plastic in our landfills?
An eco friendly campaign.
Ads, posters and newspapers.
Persuade company different products.

10. What is the effect of throwing plastic into our
landfills and what are our long term
consequences?
Hard to break down
Takes up a lot of space
Kept for long time
Animals trapped in plastic rings

11. Bibliography
youtube.com
wikipedia.org

12. The end