Mini lesson Geography

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

How we drown in plastic

Made by: 

Rick Swarts

Joep Jansen van Galen

Class: Ta3f

Teacher: Mr. Carton

Lesson goals

• You will be able to explain why we use so much plastic in our day-to-day lives.  
• What is the problem with using plastic? 
• You will be able to answer the question: "Why won't we stop using plastic?"
• You will be able to tell some solutions to the plastic soup problem
• You will know about organizations and people that are already thinking in solutions. 

What do you already know about the plastic soup problem?

What is the problem?

• Too much plastic
•  Not biodegrable
• No recycling

What solutions for the plastic soup do you already know?

Possible solutions for the plastic soup problem

• Alternative for plastic
• More recycling
• Garbage collection systems

What are the benefits of plastic?

• Cheap
•  Not heavy
• Barely reacts to other products

What are the disadvantages of plastic?

• Difficult to produce
• Difficult to recycle
•  Stays in nature for a long time

Microplastic

• Small pieces of plastic
• < 5 mm
• Ocean
• Animals

Do you know any organizations that fight the plastic soup?

Organizations 

• #TeamSeas (MrBeast & Mark Rober)
• Ocean Cleanup (Boyan Slat)
• Plastic Soup Foundation (Maria Westerbos)
• Evian (Marquis de Lessert)
• Greenpeace (David Ritter)

#TeamSeas

• MrBeast 
• Influencer
• 94,1 million subscribers

• Mark Rober
• Influencer
• 21,5 million subscribers

• 32,5 million pounds of trash

Ocean cleanup

• Boyan Slat
• 2013
• great pacific garbic patch
• System 002

Why won't we stop using plastic?

• Not as easy 
• We depend on plastic
• No alternative 
• Cheap