WALT: Write a speech with clear ideas and information and use an animated voice while speaking so the audience will be interested.
Plastic
13.09.18
Have you ever thought about the devastating impact that plastic has on our beloved environment? If you haven’t, you need to start thinking about it now before our planet becomes a horrendous garbage dump!
Today I will try to convince you to give up plastic so our world with be a healthy, radiant place to live.
You might think, hey what’s wrong with plastic , isn’t it a useful, durable and cheap material to make things out of?
Well yes, we use plastic products every single day. For example your phone, computer, lunchbox, toothbrush, are all made from plastic.
That’s just the start, what about your shiny hundred nights certificate laminated with plastic , ( has sir ever thought about that) and I bet if you wrote on a list everything that is plastic in your house, you would have written down hundreds of things! There is hardly an area of our lives where we are untouched by plastic.
Unfortunetly our love of plastic is hurting the Marine environment, why? Well think about all those poor sea creatures getting caught or having their digestive systems blocked due to rubbish waste going into our precious oceans! Approximately 100,000 marine animals and 1 million seabirds die each year from getting tangled or digesting plastic!!! Have you ever heard of microplastics? For those of you that don’t know, microplastics are small plastic particles or shards that are less than five millimeters long which you can faintly see. Research says that at least 5 trillion microplastics are in our oceans!!! How could we let that happen? Next time your at Ninety-Mile Beach take a look closely near the high tide mark and you will see thousands of those malevolent pieces of plastic that are there because of us.
One of New Zealand’s biggest problems at the moment is the waste created through thoughtless shopping. Think about all that unnecessary packaging that you have brought and taken in your lunch? Chip packets, plastic wrap, tinfoil! Do you really think you need all of that just because it looks nicely packaged and a whole lot of other people buy it!!! No, of course not, get rid of it before we grow the problem even more! Not many know that they are actually trashing our precious planet just by littering and leaving their rubbish behind.
So, what can you and I do to reduce our plastic use? Firstly, at the supermarket you could try using material bags to put your fruit and vegetables in. A much better option than those flimsy single use plastic bags! Next, you could use beeswax wrap and baking paper as a preferable option to gladwrap. Also, think about the products that you are buying and how they are packaged, for example instead of buying mini chip packs buy a big packet.
Buy tinned dog food instead of dogroll wrapped in plastic. Get refills of tomato sauce in cans so you don’t have to buy a new plastic bottle each time. Buy a bamboo toothbrush instead of a plastic one. Next time you’re at the beach do the environment a favour and pick up some of the plastic that you see and take it to be recycled then it won’t turn into fragments of microplastic on our beach.
I hope my speech has persuaded you to help take action and keep our planet a happy, clean place to live for humans and animals.
