Climate and weather

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Did you know that over a lifetime, the American population throws away nearly 694 plastic bottles per second?

1.Americans throw away .......plastic bottlesper second

That’s 60 million a day. Over time, as plastic ages, it breaks apart into tiny grains, called “mermaid tears”.

2.Plastics breaks apart into ........ ........ called "mermaid tears"

Much of this ends up in oceans, and mostly it is still plastic. These pieces make their way into the food chain and can poison or kill wildlife. Some areas of the Pacific Ocean contain six parts of plastic to one part of plankton!

3.The Pacific is dirty.. It has six part of plastic to one part of plankton

The world’s largest trash “landfill” isn’t on land – it’s in the Pacific Ocean. The so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” covers an estimated five million square miles of ocean waters.

4.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers .........square miles of ocean water

That’s the size of the United States, Mexico, and Central America combined! The trash is carried and trapped by a system of surface currents called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.

5.The Great garbage patch is the size of.....

A huge 80 percent of the trash is plastic, carried from the shores of Asia and the Americas.

6.The trash is carried from

Preserving the planet is important. That’s why David de Rothschild, a National Geographic Visiting Fellow, led a dangerous voyage through this very spot in 2010.

7.Preserving planet is...

His goal was to sail from the United States to Australia on the “Plastiki”, a raft made from plastic bottles. Along the way, he reported on eco-issues. “

8.David sailed to the United States on....

Saving the planet,” said David, “is going to be one of this century’s greatest adventures.”Attempting to sail 8,000 miles on a plastic raft was next to impossible.

9.David made .. miles

For David, that was the point. He pushed his limits in order to inspire people to challenge and rethink their own future.

10.For David it was a.....

11.“Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is a patch of plastic bottles of 8000miles

12.. He pushed his limits in order to inspire people to challenge and rethink their own future.