Plastic Pollution

How much time does it take for a plastic bottle to decompose?

• around 450 years

• around 50 years

• around 200 years

• around 5 years

Why is plastic dangerous for animals?

• They can be trapped in plastic things.

• They can choke (zakrztusić się) with small plastic pieces and die.

• They can eat plastic which fills their stomaches and they die of starvation because they don't feel hungry.

• Plastic is not so dangerous for animals.

What does this symbol on a plastic container mean?

• It is specially for pets.

• It can be recycled easily.

• You shouldn't put food or drink in it.

Why recycling can't win with plastic pollution?

• Because recycling is wrong

• Because people produce too much plastic to recycle it all.

• Because not every plastic can be recycled.

• Because not many people recycle rubbish.

How can we help to reduce plastic pollution?

• We should use paper/cloth bags.

• We should use less plastic.

• We should refill our drinking bottles not buy new ones.

• We should avoid (unikać) plastic or styrofoam containers.

• All answers are correct.

There are plastic trash islands floating (dryfujące) on oceans.

• True (prawda)

• False (fałsz)

Currents (prądy morskie) take rubbish from America, Europe and bring it to different places on our planet.

• true (prawda)

• false (fałsz)

Juice and milk boxes can be recycled easily.

• Yes, because they are made of cardboard.

• No, becayse they are made of plastic+cardboard and it's difficult to separate them

Most of the plastic rubbish is collected and recycled.

• No, 90% of trash is put in landfills or thrown into oceans.

• Yes, that's why we should recycle.

Plastic straws (plastikowe rurki do napojów) are very dangerous for sea animals.

• No, there are no straws in seas and oceans.

• Yes, they are very dangerous for animals, because they hurt them and people should stop buying them.