We are a Year 4 Class at Woodford Primary School. We hope you will enjoy reading our blog as we journey through this next year. You can find information about this term and some activities on the additional pages. We hope they are useful.

Thursday 29 March 2012

How marine life is affected by pollution

Plastic bags are used everyday to carry home shopping. When they are finished with they end up as rubbish in our bins. Consequently they are taken to landfill sites. Some rubbish is carelessly dumped by roadsides in fields or on beaches. As a result bags left on left on beaches end up in the sea which causes marine pollution (rubbish in our sea) Plastic bags are made from oil therefore take hundreds of year to decompose (break down and disappear)
Plastic bags left on beaches end up in the sea and ocean currents carry the plastic bags to feeding grounds. Plastic bags look like jellyfish in the water which are the main source of food for Leatherback turtles. Turtles eat the bags because they think they are their food which results in the turtles stomach becoming blocked. The turtels starve to death. Conequently by 2030 Leatherback turtles will be extinct.

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