Ocean Clean Up

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

What do you already know about
Ocean Clean Up
or
Plastic rubbish / waste?

www.bbc.co.uk

WHAT TO DO:

Read the text + watch the videos.

HOW LONG?

10-15 minutes

Plastic rubbish dumped in the sea causes big problems for sea life, and can pollute the water we drink.

But a new invention could provide the answer to cleaning up the ocean - by sifting off all the rubbish.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area of ocean in America between California and Hawaii, where loads of plastic waste gathers.

Now a Dutch company hopes its idea will make cleaning up the rubbish a much quicker and easier job.

Plastic rubbish dumped in the sea causes big problems for sea life, and can pollute the water we drink.

But a new invention could provide the answer to cleaning up the ocean - by sifting off all the rubbish.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area of ocean in America between California and Hawaii, where loads of plastic waste gathers.

Now a Dutch company hopes its idea will make cleaning up the rubbish a much quicker and easier job.

 

Millions of tonnes of rubbish end up in the oceans every year, and most of it comes from the land.

For example, litter gets swept into drains and ends up in rivers - so that plastic straw or cup lid you dropped could all end up in the sea.

And because most plastic isn't biodegradable - meaning it can't easily be broken down - it may be stuck there for many years.

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

 

Millions of tonnes of rubbish end up in the oceans every year, and most of it comes from the land.

For example, litter gets swept into drains and ends up in rivers - so that plastic straw or cup lid you dropped could all end up in the sea.

And because most plastic isn't biodegradable - meaning it can't easily be broken down - it may be stuck there for many years.

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

The main idea behind the Ocean Cleanup is to let the ocean's currents do the work.

U-shaped floating barriers are attached to the ocean floor by anchors, but fish and animals can still swim underneath it without getting trapped.

The barriers will move more slowly than the plastic and act as "artificial coastlines", picking up rubbish as they go.

Then the floating plastic is forced to a collection point, where it can be taken out and shipped to shore for recycling, into things like sunglasses and car bumpers.

"CURRENTS"

"BARRIERS"

"ANCHORS"

"ARTIFICIAL COATSLINES"

"SHORE"

"CURRENTS"

"BARRIERS"

"ANCHORS"

"ARTIFICIAL COATSLINES"

"SHORE"

the swiftest part of a stream

a natural formation or structure that prevents or hinders movement or action

a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place

coastline made by human

the land directly next to water

The idea came from Boyan Slat, a 22-year-old from the Netherlands, who created the Ocean Cleanup back in 2014.

Back then he said he hoped to clean up 42% of the ocean's rubbish in 10 years.

Since then he's developed his original idea into this one, which he says will cost less and make the clean up much faster.

His new aim to is to remove 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in just five years.

clean:              clean up / clean off

end:                 end out / end up

sweep:            sweep out / sweep into

pick:                pick up /  pick in

forced:            forced to / forced off

take:                take off / take out

ship:                ship off / ship to

Collocaties / collocations:

clean:              clean up / clean off

end:                 end out / end up

sweep:            sweep out / sweep into

pick:                pick up /  pick in

forced:            forced to / forced off

take:                take off / take out

ship:                ship off / ship to

Collocaties / collocations:

James is raised well, he always .............. after himself. 

I bought Linda a gift, when will it be .............. her?

Kevin's father is very strict. Kevin is ..............

.............. the trash every day.

It's better to go to school, you don't want to ..............      in the gutter.

After this lesson, I will always .............. my trash if I          accidentally drop it.

She got .............. listening to his favorite kind of music.

take out

pick up

end up

swept into

cleans up

forced to

shipped to

What:

An essay - at least 400 words!

About:

"What do you aim for when it comes to reducing your rubbish?"

Add:

At least 2 highlighted words from today's lesson

+ 1 collocation

+ reference to Boyan Slat

More info:

https://theoceancleanup.com/milestones/how-it-all-began/

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