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Why we should ban plastic

There is tons of plastic in the world, why do we need all this plastic? It just sits there in landfills blowing away into oceans and lakes. People just think that all the plastic will just break down, well it doesn't it just turns into smaller and smaller pieces.

Millions of tons of plastic are dumped into landfills each year, but what does it do? Well once the plastic is in the landfills it either blows away or it just breaks down into tiny pieces that go into the soil and water. It can take up to 1000 years to break down plastic. 

Every year 8 million metric tons enter our ocean, that's a lot just think of all the animals that die each year because of eating plastic bags or getting stuck in plastic bottle holders. Over one million sea animals die each year because of our plastic. 

Out of the 8.3 billion metric tons that have been produced, 6.3 billion metric tons have become plastic waste. That's only nine percent recycled. That means that the rest of the plastic is out either in our oceans, lakes or just blowing around.

Over 300 million tons of plastic are produced each year and 50% is single-use only used for several hours or days only and then is on the earth for at least several hundred years.

Plastic is a very big problem for our environment. It is polluting our oceans, rivers and it's taking over our land. It's probably even in the dirt that is under the grass on your school field or your front lawn and you don’t even know. We need to stop plastic in general, not just plastic bags or plastic bottles but every single plastic. This is a big problem and it's hard to believe but we made this problem so now we have to fix it back to the way it was.

By Lola

⇦An ocean full of plastic 

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