On the 4th of October 2005 what did Collingwood become?
New Zealand's first plastic-bag-free town
*New Zealanders use around three million plastic bags each day.
*At Least half of the litter blown from landfills is some kind of plastic mostly plastic bag.
*The average New Zealand family has collected sixty bags after just four trips to the supermarket.
*Plastic fills 20% of New Zealand's landfill
*Every year New Zealand uses 4 million plastic bags a year.
Help Solve the plastic problem.
If people in New Zealand used cloth and paper bags there wouldn’t be as much of a plastic problem in New Zealand and it would cut down the number of plastic bags used in a year if New Zealand used other bags than plastic.
5 words you might not know
Environmental - Something related to the environment.
Non-renewable - Not able to be renewable.
Tangled - Something caught on each other like being twisted together.
Flimsy - Can be easily damaged.
Scrubbing - You scrub something like a glass to clean it.
Problem-solving
The reason 1-fact 1 If you take your own bags you won’t have to use plastic.
Reason 2-fact 3Because after four trips to the supermarket they have collected a lot of plastic.
Reason 3- fact 5 We are killing living things so it's better to use cloth bags or cardboard boxes.
Reason 4-fact 8 Because only one plastic bag takes 5 hundred years to break down so try to reuse them.
Reason 5- fact 4- Because most plastic is plastic bags that are blown to the ocean.
Reason 6- 6 use plastic bags as bin liners so they don’t get stuck in trees or littered anywhere including the sea.
Group: Ella, Alexia and Ruben
