Class 1 to 12
Project work on sustainable development
@Pankaj Bhanwani
Planet or Plastic
150 years ago we created a lightweight,strong, and inexpensive material
Today this miracle material helps keep hearts beating and planes in the air
More than 40% of it is used just onced,then tossed
Some 9 million tons of it end up in the ocean each year
This blog is a photographic blog which I have written by collecting the photographs from internet and other magzines
It could be an eye opener for all of us that we can stop using plastic
It could be a great project for any class from class 1 to any level about sustainable development
I start with some photographs about how plastics have badly affected environment
An old plastic fishing net snares a logger-head turtle in the mediterranean off spain The turtle could stretch its neck above water to breathe but would have died had the photographer not freed it " Ghost fishing " by derelict gear is a big threat to sea turtles
Some animals now live in a world of plastics - like these hyenas scavenging in the landfills in Harar , Ethiopia . They listen for garbage trucks and find much of their food in trash
On Okinawa , Japan , a hermit crab resorts to a plastic bottle cap to protect its soft abdomen . Beachgoers collect the shells the crab normally use , and they leave trash behind
The photographer freed this struck from a plastic bag at a land fill in Spain . One bag can kill more than once : Carcasses decay , but plastic lasts and can choke or trap again
If you licked one of these "treats", you will encounter cigarete butts ,oil oozing trash, and a whole lot of plastic and other unsavory pollutants . Three art students collected water from a hundred sites around Taiwan and then froze it into blocks
After sheets of clear plastic trash have been washed in the Buri-Ganga river , in Dhaka,Bangladesh , Noorjahan spreads them out to dry , turning them regularly- while also tending to her son . The plastic will eventually be sold to a recycler . Less than a fifth of all plastic gets recycled globally . In the U.S . its less than 10%
Forget Bitcoin. The hottest potential new currency lies in our trashbins, Arthur Huang says, and he's built a portable recycling plant to prove it. His solar-powered Trashpresso turns plastic waste into small tiles that can be used to build walls and floors
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man adds to a mountain of discarded plastic bottles.
Six Things You Can Do (and Feel No Pain)
1. Give up plastic bags. Take your own reusable ones to the store. A trillion plastic shopping bags are used worldwide every year, and 100 billion in the United States alone—that’s almost one per American per day. The average Dane, in contrast, goes through four single-use bags per year. Denmark passed the first bag tax in 1993.
2. Skip straws. Unless you have medical needs, and even then you could use paper ones. Americans toss 500 million plastic straws every day, or about 1.5 per person.
3. Pass up plastic bottles. Invest in a refillable water bottle. Some come with filters if you’re worried about water quality. A handful of cities, including Bundanoon, Australia, and San Francisco, have banned or partially banned bottled water. But around the world, nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute.
4. Avoid plastic packaging. Buy bar soap instead of liquid. Buy in bulk. Avoid produce sheathed in plastic. And while you’re at it, give up plastic plates and cups. The French are (partially) banning the stuff.
5. Recycle what you can. Even in rich countries, recycling rates are low. Globally, 18 percent of all plastic is recycled. Europe manages 30 percent, China 25—the United States only 9.
6. Don’t litter. The Ocean Conservancy has run beach cleanups for 30 years. Of the top 10 types of trash they find, the only nonplastic item is glass bottles. Worldwide, 73 percent of beach litter is plastic: cigarette butts (the filters), bottles and caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, polystyrene containers. In 2016 the conservancy collected 9,200 tons of trash in 112 countries—around a thousandth of what enters the ocean each year.
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