Howdy guys! This week I wrote a Youth Voices Post on how this project has affected how I see plastic pollution and how I hope that I have reached at least ONE person and gotten them to change the way they see plastic. This project has allowed me a lot of self realization that even … Continue reading Youth Voices Post
Author: Maddie F.
Youth Voices Post!
Hey Guys! Today in tech class I made my first Youth Voices in two years in order to try to share my youtube video and stances on climate change and plastic pollution with many other schools! On Youth Voices there are over twenty active schools that share ideas with each other through tags and comments. … Continue reading Youth Voices Post!
Climate Change Part 1.
alrighty, today i'm going to talk about climate change!!! i know this is not about plastic pollution but it is just another thing that is going to affect the health of our enviornment in the future. Sea levels are continously rising and soon they will rise and flood our cities and coastal areas. If this … Continue reading Climate Change Part 1.
Hey Guys, so in our tech class we were taught how to make presentations and utilize them in order to spread the problems surrounding our topics as a way to try to make a change. I made my presentation about the effects of plastic pollution and how it is created! https://youtu.be/HSJZA-IF2Uw This Video was important … Continue reading
PRESERVE
PRESERVE is a company founded by Eric Hudson and his father, Fred Hudson. As a child Eric Hudson loved nature, but after recycling for so many years he noticed a trend in where most recycled plastic went. He found that many companies did not do anything to reuse or upcycle the plastic. In 1996 he … Continue reading PRESERVE
Green Toys Is Saving the World!
Green Toys is a company that makes their toys from recycled plastic! They mainly use plastic milk jugs and have already recycled 56 million of these jugs! They are doing this in order to make use of all the plastic that has been used in the world but will still take 5000 years to decompose. … Continue reading Green Toys Is Saving the World!
PlAsTic StAtIsTiCs
^^nationalgeographic Half the plastic used in a year is only used once40% of plastic is used for production^^^57% were for the packaging of water The U.S made more than 100 billion plastic bottles last year!Of all the plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean 80% of it is from landIt is estimated that 1 million seabirds … Continue reading PlAsTic StAtIsTiCs
Bees Are Adapting to Our Trash
The Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve has recently discovered that bees are collecting our trash to build their nests. I believe that this is just a horrible thing to have to happen to such organisms that provide us with pollinating flowers to grow and keep our ecosystem in a friendly and healthy way. In addition, the … Continue reading Bees Are Adapting to Our Trash
Need To Knows About Plastic
Plastic bags are not recyclable! (another reason as to why you should always use recyclable bags.Plastic can disrupt hormone changes and carcinogens! (with the excess amounts of plastic being found in animals we are actually consuming bits of plastic which will affect our health).Plastic is made from crude oil! (crude oil is a fossil fuel, … Continue reading Need To Knows About Plastic
Plastic Bottles, a True Plastic Life
Heres something crazy: 1 MILLION plastic bottles are purchased around the world in a minute! In fact, by 2021 that number is supposed to raise by 20% and more than half a trillion will be sold by the end of that decade. The number of plastic bottles has continued to increase as years pass and … Continue reading Plastic Bottles, a True Plastic Life
Plastic Pollution Sucks 