Reading - Plastic Fantasic

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