Human impact on the environment

Books created by students and teachers about environmental awareness.

Environmental Awareness

Most plastic is made from chemicals that come from oil (petroleum) natural gas, or coal. Single-use plastics are filling up our landfills, choking our rivers, and contaminating our oceans.

Plastics are very useful but they can also cause many problems for the environment. There are more than 5 trillion macro/micro pieces of plastic in our ocean.

There are 381 million metric tons of plastic that are being wasted each year, there is only 9% of the plastic are being recycled which means there is about 34 million plastic that is being recycled but there is 347 million plastic that aren’t being recycled.

Plastic takes about 20~500 years to decompose (concerning a dead body or other organic matter). Chariotenergy.com Feb 10,2021

Recycled plastic can be turned into clothing, playground equipment, and more bottles. Plastic bags are only 27% recycled. Vietnam was the 3rd largest waste in Asia in 1990 to 2015.  In the past Each person waste 3.8 kg per year and now they waste 41 kg of plastic per year.

There were 50 main types of plastic. Plastic can be made in almost any shape by heating it at a high temperature.  The Vietnamese government is going to ban single-use plastic by 2025.

Don’t you think that there is too much plastic? What is the difference between Bioplastic and normal plastic? The difference is normal plastic harms the environment by fossil fuel but Bioplastic does not, the definition of Bioplastic is “ a type of biodegradable plastic”, and, Bioplastic is designed to cause the least possible damage to the environment.

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