What happens to your plastic bags when you have finished with them?

Do you ever wonder what happens to your plastic bags when you have finished with them? Plastic bags are made from oil, a natural resource, which is why they take hundreds of years to decompose(break down and disintegrate).
Sea pollution is caused by rubbish which get carelessly dumped on road sides (to be taken to landfill sites) and then carelessly dumped in the sea which results in ocean currents carrying them to feeding grounds.
Pollution causes damage to lots of different sea creatures especially Leatherback turtles whose main source of food is Jellyfish. Unfortunately your plastic bags that you leave on the beach look identical to Jellyfish when they are in the water. This causes the turtles to mistakenly eat them and makes their stomach become blocked! and consequently they die of starvation. As a result by 2030 Leatherback turtles will become extinct!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

We thought that today's work was very interesting and extremely fun!
Our favourite part was when we had a race to see who could be the fastest to sort out the natural resources and looking at all of the different materials that are wasted every day. Did you know that the place where all your rubbish goes is called a landfill! Also did you know that some roof tiles are made of disposable nappies and that the horrible gas that produces a really bad smell is called methane and it can affect the environment, causing Global warming and Climate Change. Oil spillages can effect animals such as turtles and dolphins and lots of other sea creatures because it blocks their airways and then they might die!
Please help us reduce, reuse and recycle to save the WORLD!

Plastic Soup @ NMA

Yesterday at the National Marine Aquarium we took a trip to the sciance lab. We had a look what was inside of a Ocean sunfish and we were very suprised at what was inside the fish.  The main message was to not litter and recycle are plastics otherwise they get washed into the Ocen and the sea creaturs will think its food and eat it if the creatures eat to much plastic and rubish the rubish might get stuck in there throat and might stop them from breathing and they could die. Inside of the fish we saw a dead squid,3 dead shrimp,lots of rope and plastic and five milk bottle caps. We had a really fun time and it made us want to recycle more of our rubish. Thankyou for our lovely trip and we hope to go again.