How does pollution affects Leatherback turtles

Plastic bags left on beaches end up in the sea which causes marine pollution (rubbish in the sea).Ocean currents carry plastic bags to feeding grounds .Plastic bags look like jelly fish in the water which are the main source of food for leather back turtles.Turtles eat the plastic bags because they think they are their food which results inn the turtles stomach becomes blocked .The turtles starve to death.Consequently by 2030 leather back turtles will be extinct.

Plastic bags are used everyday in order to carry home shopping .When they are finished with they end up in the sea as rubbish in our bins. Some rubbish is carelessly dumped on road sides in fields or on beaches however rubbish is taken up to landfill sites . Bags left on beaches end up in the sea which causes marine pollution . Plastic bags are made from oil . This causes plastic bags to take hundreds of years to decompose .

Recycling our Rubbish!

Today we learnt about handling and recycling our rubbish. We did some quiz's and questionnaires about recycling and what we use with our old rubbish! We also sorted the plastic and different materials onto the photographs of natural resources; wood and plastic. Then we looked at different materials and had to guess what they were made of like; play ground surface, pencil case, underlay, Rucksack, trowel, ladle, clipboard. Did you know that roof tiles are actually made of Disposable Nappies! The non renewable Resources that make the thing we have today are, sand which is made to use glass, Oil which makes plastic and Bauxite which makes Aluminium. The Renewable Resources that we used were wood which makes paper but also reduces habitats and Cotton which makes materials like bags. The actual word that is used for a dump/tip is landfill. The Gas that comes from the stinky garbage is called Methane.

Plastic Soup@NMA

JUST ADD H2O

Yesterday we went to the national marine aquarium .

Investagation 1: stomach contents of a loggerhead turtle

We made a list of things we thought we would find in a Loggerhead turtle we came up with fish seaplants and jelly fish we were shocked by what was realy in a Loggerhead turtles stomach there was 1 squid 5 prawns 3 muceles 1 plastic bag mustakend for a jelly fish tooth 2 toothpaste lids 1 penlid 10 bottlelids 1 cottenbud stick 3 lollypop sticks and a big black peace of plastic.

Investagation 2: How can we reduce plastic pollution ?
Make sure that rubish goes in the bin and not down the toilet. Pick up rubish from the beach. Don't throw rubish in the sea. Don't feed plastic to the animals. Never ever let plastic go to waste.