True or False?

Marine animals often mistake bits of plastic for food

TRUE Whales often think plastic bags are jelly fish. Fish mistake small bits of plastic for plankton.

True or False?

True Animals die from eating plastic or getting tangled and trapped.

Plastic rubbish kills as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.

True or False?

80% of all the plastic waste in the sea is dumped by ships.

False Only 20% is dumped by ships the other 80% was thrown away by us on land. Plastic is blown or washed into drains, streams, rivers and eventually finds it’s way into the sea.

True or False?

False We use enough plastic water bottles to circle the world twice!

In one year the UK uses enough plastic bottles of water to circle the earth once.

REFUSE

Say no to plastic straws

Say no to plastic bottles - Get a reusable drinking bottle

Say no to plastic bags - Carry your own bag

REDUCE

Find an alternative to plastic party bags full of plastic toys

Encourage your parents to buy fruit and vegetables that are not wrapped in plastic.

Use soap instead of liquid soap in plastic bottles

REUSE

Buy toys from the charity shop

Take your plastic toys to the charity shop

Wash and keep packaging to use again

Use plastic pots to store things in

Use plastic for art or craft projects

RECYCLE

Recycle as much plastic as you possibly can

You can recycle bottles, bags, trays and other packaging

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1. Use a reusable stainless steel drinking bottle instead of buying plastic bottles.

2. Remember to take reusable shopping bags when you go shopping.

3. Use soap instead of body wash in plastic bottles.

4. Use metal cutlery instead of plastic, and paper plates instead of plastic.

5. Say ʻNOʼ to plastic straws.

Top Tips to reduce plastic

6. Take unwanted plastic toys to the charity shop.

7. If you are planning a party bag don’t choose plastic toys.

8. Reuse plastic things for craft projects

9. Reuse plastic boxes and other plastic things if you can.

10. Recycle as much plastic as you can.

Top Tips to reduce plastic

Dear Albatross I did not knowMy plastic things could hurt you soThe bottle tops I sometimes drop

My slurpy, bendy strawsElastic bands I like to flick

Balloons that twist for birthday tricksI really had not one idea

That the plastic I see hereOn my streets and in my home

Would find its way to where you roam 

Dear Albatross

Dear Albatross continued..

I did not know that my streets litterGets rained into the Thames to flitter

Along its twisty tidal pathInto the sea where its journey starts

To frolic over ocean wavesUntil in reaches your domain

Where now I know you think its foodAnd feed it to your new born brood

Oh Albatross I understandWhat plastic does to you is really bad

I promise to recycle thingsI would have once put in the binAnd I promise I will never drop

Wrappers from the sweetie shop 

But most of all I will refusePlastic that only once I use

I will tell one person every dayThat plastic never goes away

But finds its way out to the seaWhere creatures eat it for their tea.

Dear Albatross continued…

The Wandering Albatross

Albatrosses spend almost all their lives at sea. They even sleep on the ocean. Once an albatross reaches adulthood it will fly out to sea and might not return back to the land for up to five years.

Albatrosses eat squid and fish they catch from the surface of the water. The parents have special stomachs that digest some food but keep aside a fishy oil, which they vomit up to feed their chicks.

The wandering albatross has a wingspan of 3.5 metres - more than three times your arm span.

Albatrosses can live for up to 70 years. Unfortunately, because they now face so many hazards from humans it is rare for them to die a natural death.

Of the 22 known albatross species, 19 are now threatened with extinction.

REAL ALBATROSS (May be upsetting)

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