What category does your issue fall under?
Social Environmental Ethical
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What specifically is your issue (e.g. Global Warming, Pollution of NZ waterways, etc)
Picking up litter can make our community clean and it can kill animals.
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Why is this issue important to you?
Because
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Your Focusing Questions
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Resource 1 (first website, video, or source of info)
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Resource 2 (second website, video, or source of info)
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Resource 3 (third website, video, or source of info)
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Who/what does
Picking up litter can affect?
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Around 12,000 men, women and children got to work cleaning Britain’s streets and litter and rubbish can kill animals.
Beaches and all different areas are nationwide. When people do beach or river clean-ups they always make sure that the volunteers carry a non plastic bag to carry the waste and they provide them with lunch wrapped in banana leaves and remind them to bring tumblers to show there are alternatives to plastic
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In india a man called afroz shah and he has cleared 9,000 tons of trash from different beaches.
He says he loves beaches and he is scared that it is going to destroy the earth. The average American produces about 130 pounds of trash a month, and an article in the journal Nature estimates that global solid-waste generation will triple, to 11 million tons a day, by 2100.
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We already turn water bottles into fleece, plastic bags into deck material, roofing into pavement. But ideas abound for more-futuristic forms of recycling. Mitchell Joachim, a co-founder of Terreform one, a design firm based in New York, proposes crushing trash and molding it into Tetris‑esque blocks that we could use to build islands and skyscrapers.
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Question 1
How to Stop Humans From Filling the World With Trash?
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There are a lot of items that we use everyday and then get rid of them by throwing them in the garbage. Unfortunately, this results in a pile of garbage as we throw old items, as well as packaging of new items. Reducing solid waste is reducing the amount of trash that goes to landfills. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are most common methods to reduce landfill waste.
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While most of us may consider ourselves to be adept at conserving and recycling, the truth is that the average American makes far more trips to landfills every year than you might think. While all of us probably believe that recycling and reusing things is a good thing, it’s a question of whether or not we actually carry it out.
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A landfill site not only has a bad effect on the tourism industry but also badly pollutes clean water and air. Polluted air and water has a negative effect on the health of humans, animals and marine life. Here are 15 useful steps you can take to ensure that you make fewer trips to the landfill each year.
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Question 2
(How does litter and rubbish hurt and kill animals)
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Plastic waste suffocates, disables and kills thousands of animals each year. Litter is dirty and spoils our environment. Turtles, seals, birds and dolphins often mistake plastic waste for food. ... If they eat too much plastic, their stomachs always feel full, so they don't eat anything else.
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Turtles, seals, birds and dolphins often mistake plastic waste for food. Plastic bags floating in the water can look like jellyfish, for example. After animals eat plastic, their intestines get blocked and their normal food can’t be digested properly. If they eat too much plastic, their stomachs always feel full, so they don’t eat anything else. Eventually they can starve to death. Plastic also contains lots of nasty chemicals that can poison animals and cause internal injuries. In India, 20 cows die every day because they have eaten plastic bags; and most sea birds on the planet already have some plastic pieces in their stomachs. The chemicals in the plastic eaten by fish and other animals are passed up the food chain to other creatures, and even to humans.
Here is a video of what rubbish does to our community and to our animals?
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Animals often get entangled in plastic bags. This means they can suffocate, starve or drown. It also makes it easier for predators to catch them. Plastic bags constrict an animal’s movement which means they can get exhausted, or sometimes develop an infection from wounds caused by material wrapped around them. Plastic packaging can sink to the ocean floor, get wrapped around and smother coral reefs. Inland, plastic blocks drains, allowing mosquitoes to breed and spread dengue fever.
(Here is a link to a website to tell you about what rubbish does to our animals and our country)
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Question 3
(Why is litter a problem?)
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Litter is is what we call trash when it ends up outside a bin or landfill.
Litter is bad for animals and people. Plastic waste suffocates, disables and kills thousands of animals each year. Litter is dirty and spoils our environment.
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Some animals are attracted to areas with lots of litter. They find their food among the trash and can pick up germs and become carriers for diseases that may make people sick.Litter is bad for the environment. It wastes our natural resources.
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Litter consists of trash and household toxic substances that are improperly disposed of on land or in water. Whether the litter is intentional or unintentional, large or small, it can drastically affect the environment for years to come. Before carelessly tossing another item out the window or looking the other way when someone else does, consider the impact you can make on the environment by recycling, reusing and disposing of waste properly.
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Digital Technology
In digital technology we had to choose out of an social, environmental and a ethical issue. Then we had to make 3 questions about that issue my issue is how to stop humans from filling the world with trash. Here are my questions that I have chosen.
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