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Problems of Plastic

By: Jimmy Hoang

and

Manjot Hansra

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Aren’t Using Reusable Products

  • Waste the plastic bags we get from grocery store
  • Coffee Cups from places like Starbucks
  • Plastic water bottles

Some reusable products we can use are:

  • Stainless steel water bottles because stainless steel is a 100% recyclable and is made of 40% end-of-life products.
  • Also we can use reusable bags instead of having to throw away plastic bags and have them end up in the ocean
  • Although you can't just use a reusable bag twice and say you helped out you have to use it over 100 times in most cases to help out

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Litter Too Much

  • Plastics most littered are Polyethylene terephthalate
  • Most types are plastic water bottles and soda bottles.
  • This formula is CHO and is made from fossil fuels

and isn’t easily degradable

Suppose mass with water = 70g

Mass of water = 70 - 40 = 30g.

Since density of water is 1g/cm^3,

volume of water = mass/density = 30/1=30cm^3.

So volume of density bottle = 30cm^3

Mass of liquid = 60 - 40 = 20g

  • Density of liquid = mass/volume = 20/30 = 0.667g/cm^3

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Aren’t Recycling

  • Throw things in the trash ends up somewhere it shouldn’t be
  • Wasting plastics and reusable products instead of putting it someplace we can use it. Also kids just throw a lot of things on the ground.

Ex. ACHS does not have recycling bins around the school only garbage cans this cause them to be lazy and just throw things on the ground

  • Ends up in drains
  • Marine animals are affected because plastic doesn’t dissolve
  • They are affected due to the the chemicals released from such bags that get in their food and the bag can choke them if they get tangled in them.

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Work Cited

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  • http://www.environment.ucla.edu/newsroom/ucla-report-urges-new-global-policy-effort-to-tackle-crisis-of-plastic-litter-in-oceans/
  • http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/plastics.htm