Plastic Pollution Speech

Speech

Hello Everyone! My name is Ramya and my concern about the community is plastic wasting. We use plastic just about every day. Plastic bags, plastic containers, plastic ziploc bags. Do you know what happens to this plastic that we use. We usually throw it in the garbage than rather recycle it. That plastic gets dumped in the garbage truck, and that garbage gets dumped into the ocean. Why do we waste plastic so much?

One day I was walking down a beach and I saw a duck in the water trying to wade out. I came closer to see and I saw that it was wrapped up in a plastic net. It was trying to get out and I thought who would be so thoughtless and dump plastic or trash into the ocean without realizing it can hurt animals. I realized that piece of plastic, was littered by someone from the beach. Whenever we use some sort of plastic we almost always throw it into the garbage bin instead of the recycling bin. All the plastic bottles in the community used for a year can be equal to just one water bottle we can use everyday. Usually when plastic is wasted it gets dumped into the ocean. There are always sea animals living under the ocean so they either get caught on the plastic or they eat the plastic. Think about how animals get hurt by the habitat they live in. When sea animals fiddle around with plastic they can really get hurt. 

Plastic is not biodegradable which means it is not made from nature like brown bags. Brown bags are made from paper which come from trees, they are biodegradable. Anyways, plastic is not biodegradable, which means it’s not always good. So if its not made from nature, what is it made of? Mostly plastic is made of chemicals and natural gas.

Before I moved here I lived in Cupertino and one day when I went with my dad to the local stores I saw that they banned plastic bags. They replaced them with biodegradable brown bags. In the south bay, the plastic use became much less. 

If we don't do that to our community we will have to suffer the guiltiness of wasting plastic when we can recycle it and reuse. So first, what we should do is recycle plastic instead of throwing it away. Next, we could make a program that saves plastic than rather doing it the other way around. We should also give out notices that this is our community and that we shouldn't ruin it, but take care of it. Our community is our home.  

If you’re thinking about how not to use plastic don’t, because some types of plastics are biodegradable and good for you to use. Just be careful though on what you choose. Remember though you’re not thinking about just yourself. Think about the environment too, like animals and nature. Plastic abuse almost everyone unless you’re the person who knows what you're doing. So good luck.