An adventure of a piece of rubbish.

An adventure of a piece of rubbish

By Maja Wąsińska, Patryk Esmund, Wojciech Nowak

Erasmus+

There was a piece of rubbish.
One day the family put it in a rubbish bin.

After a few days the garbage truck came and took it to the rubbish dump.

After a few months, the piece of rubbish was dumped in the canals and it didn't take long for the garbage to make its way to the river. It travelled all over the country before it came to the sea.

It drifted endlessly through seas and oceans until it saw the horizon one day. It was Poland.

When it reached the shore a girl came, picked it up, and saved the planet.

According to the survey conducted in our local community plastic is the most recurrent type of waste. In Poland we throw away 156 thousand tonnes of plastic bottles every year. That’s approximately 5 billion plastic bottles each year. Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.

But where does all this plastic go?
Some plastic is recycled. Quite a bit ends up in landfills. And more than you can imagine ends up on the loose as plastic pollution, eventually making its way into our waterways. Giant garbage patches can be found floating around in the oceans. One million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed annually from plastic in our oceans.