Sarah Langi came to talk to Room 15 about Reduce, Re-use and Recycle. The most important one is reduce. She showed us how we could reduce (make less) rubbish by using reusable or biodegradable containers in our lunch boxes.
This is how long it takes some things to biodegrade (breakdown) when they are buried in soil.
Paper-2-4 Weeks;
Leaves-1-3 Months;
Orange Peel- 6 Months;
Milk Carton- 5 years;
Plastic Bag- 10-20 Years;
Plastic Container- 50-80 Years;
Aluminium Can- 80 Years;
Tin Can- 100 Years;
Plastic fizzy drink bottle- 450 Years;
Glass Bottle-500 Years;
Styrofoam-Never!
Half of the plastic ends up in the ocean.
David De Rothschild is so worried about all the plastic floating in the ocean that he has built a boat out of 12,500 plastic bottles to sail through the great Pacific garbage dump.
He has called the boat Plastiki and you can follow his journey at www.theplastiki.com.
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