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PLASTIC NEVER

goes away

All the plastic produced during the last

70 YEARS is still out there.

WITH NATURAL CURRENTS,
DISCARDED PLASTIC FORMS
HUGE FLOATING PATCHES IN
THE OCEANS.

WITH SUNLIGHT IT BREAKS
DOWN INTO MICROPLASTICS.

PLASTIC WASTE IS A HAZARD FOR ANIMALS AND POTENTIALLY FOR HUMANS:

Animals can get entangled in and Microplastics are eaten by tiny organisms, which are then
strangled from plastic debris; they can eaten by larger organisms. So plastics are entering the
also eat the plastics and die. food chain and the impact on animal and human life on
earth is unknown. 6

Exercise 3

6. National Geographic News, Thursday October 28, 2010.
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