Suitable for classroom use or between lessons.

What is the text about the story of plastic. Plastic can now be found everywhere from the bottom of the oceans inside animals in the air we breathe in rain and our bodies. Machines filled the bottles with sweet. The story had everything.

About this film Our first feature-length documentary The Story of Plastic is a searing expose revealing the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. The 5p plastic. Hes pumped onto a ship then to a refinery made into small plastic bits then molded into a water bottle.

It was called Bakelite and was invented by Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland in the early. Part of a free series of graded reading texts for encouraging English students to read more widely. In this worksheet children discover what plastic is how it is manufactured as well as its history and about attempts to reduce plastic waste.

In an underwater paradise a plastic nightmare. After reading about plastic and looking at two sidebars students then answer a series of questions to reflect on what they have learned. In turn these monomers were bonded into long polymer chains to make plastic in the form of millions of pellets.

Designed for third fourth and fifth graders this All about Plastic worksheet lends. Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles shedding light on the dangers these disposables present to our world. Pedestrians in the street looked up to see a flying plastic bird in the sky and thought how odd that a plastic bag was floating in the sky blown by the ever-increasing wind speed.

Plastics in the ocean have been building up for decades. Plastic is everywhere but what do you know about it. Since the dawn of history humankind has endeavoured to develop materials offering benefits not found in natural materials.