Environmental Health Trash and its Effect on our lives

What is Trash?Defined: any matter that is no longer

wanted, worthless, useless and discarded.Give some examples of trash?What Happens to trash after it is discarded?If trash is not disposed of properly were does

it end up?

Trash that is not disposed of properly ultimately ends up as marine debrisEven if you do not live in a coastal community all trash makes its way to waterways that lead eventually into oceans

Marine Debris Defined as human-created waste that is

deliberately or accidentally released into lakes, stream and oceans.

The final resting place for this debris is our oceans!

The debris get collected in patchesThese patches are filled with many types of hazardous material that is dangerous to the health of the oceans , marine life, land animals and humans around the globe. The most famous patch is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Trash in the Ocean The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is created by two separate patches that converge on each other as gyre’s or a massive whirlpool that is created by the undersea currents and the movement of the earth.

The size in comparison to the USA!!

Watch this videohttps://youtu.be/uCQMZfnM-a4

Why should this concern me?*Won’t the debris just decay and become absorbed by the environment?

From your list of what is litter or trash list what you think is the amount of time the piece of garbage will biodegrade?

Referenceseducation. national

geographic.com/encyclopedia/great pacific-garbage-patch.

Llewellyn, D. (2013) “Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry and Argumentation” Corwin a Sage Company, Thousand Oaks, CA USA.

www.NOAA.gov https://youtu.be/uCQMZfnM-a4 “Trash Talk”.