5TSO Unit 3, Step 4 A tiny problem

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Microplastics

p. 135

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Some companies make microplastics on purpose.

The USA is playing a leading role in banishing the microplastics

Plastic often contains dangerous chemicals.

Bigger bits of plastic break down into smaller bits.

There are natural, biodegradable solutions for microplastics.

Microplastics are becoming a really big issue for marine animals.

Plastics gets stuck inside the animal's stomach.

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Microplastics can be formed from clothes in the washing machine.

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An average bottle of face scrub contains about half a million microplastics.

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Microplastics make up for 75% of the total amount of plastic in our environment.

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Dangerous chemicals from plastic are also a threat to humans.

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Most of the microplastics are filtered out in water treatment plants.

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In Australia supermarkets don't sell products containing microplastics from 1 January 2018 onwards.

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p. 136 - read the text

What are microplastics, according to the text? Describe in 1 sentence.

Why are microplastics dangerous? (How dangerous are microplastics?)

There are 2 kinds of microplastics, which ones?

There are two kinds of microplastics:

• microplastics produced for specific purposes (e.g. plastic pellets in scrubs)
• fragments from larger plastic objects 

How do e.g. plastic pellets end up in oceans and rivers?

How are larger plastic objects turned into microplastics?

Read the text again.

• Underline topical sentences (usually in the beginning of each paragraph)
• Fill in the outline of the text on p. 137.
• Take a picture of your outline and post it on the next slide!

Post the picture of your outline here!