Rubbish!

Comment 10: Rubbish!

Plastic is the most common material used by our current society. If you look in your house, you will find plastic bags, plastic glasses, plastic containers... Most of the things you usually use are made of plastic. Can you imagine a life without plastic? Maybe not, plastic is a usefull material, you can do everything with it. But, of course, it couldn´t be as great as it looks. Plastic is one of the most polluting materials in the planet. It pollutes forests, oceans, mountains, and even cities. And when we burn it, it is even worse because it pollutes the air.

Most people throw these plastics into the toilet, and then, they go to oceans and seas. Do you know that in the Pacific Ocean we can find one island made of plastic? It has an area of 1.6 km and it has the size of a new continent, so it is called the plastic continent. This can sound just like an interesting fact, without more importance, but if we don´t do anything to stop this, there will be more and more plastic continents, and in a few years, the oceans will be completely polluted.

Nowadays, scientists are investigating new materials that don´t pollute as much as plastic, to use them instead of plastic, but we must help to reduce the pollution of oceans and forests, we mustn´t throw plastics into the toilet, instead of it, throw them into a special recycling bin, it´s quite easy, and you will be helping your planet.