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Recent government initiative: cut down number of thin plastic bags

Subject of the show: Impact of Plastic on the environment

Few yrs ago: countries in UK charge plastic bag

Other countries in the world recently banned the use of plastic bags

Why bad?:  yrs -> decompose, people don’t dispose them carefully, litter streets, clog pipes,…

Solutions: recycle or stop using.

A pharmaceutical company been developing biodegradable bags with additives breakdown when exposed to sunlight, oxygen, heat.

About 10% of 300 mil tons plastic produced a yr -> sea

Zooplanktons ingested microplastic -> sea creatures ingested zooplanktons -> human consumes the sea creature

Food chain: uppers eat lowers

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- Government recently attempt to reduce amount of plastic bags
- Plastic bag dangerous -> not break down till hundreds of yrs later
- Cause: people don’t dispose them carefully, litter streets, clog pipes,…
- Solution: recycle, stop using
- John Mc Guire: a pharmaceutical company develope a plastic bag with additives breakdown when exposed to sunlight, oxygen, heat => new special plastic bags decompose easily than existing ones
- Neil: biodegradable bags not durable
- Dr Pennie Lindeque: microplastic - part of human food
- Food chain: human <- sea creatures <- zooplanktons <- microplastic

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- The government: wants to reduce the amount of plastic bags.
- Those are dangerous:
+ don't break down until 100 years later
+ aren't be disposed carefully, etc.
- John McGuire:
new special ones: decompose more easily when exposing to enviromental factors: sunlight, oxygen, etc.
- Neil:
biodegradable bags: not very durable.
- Zooplankton:
+ eat most of microplastics - part of human food. (Dr Pennie Lindeque)
+ at bottom of the food chain.

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The harmful effects of plastic bags on the environment and life.
Government recently attempt to reduce the amount of plastic bags
The reason why plastic bags are dangerous to the environment is that they don't break down until hundreds of year later.
Cause: litter streets, awareness of people,...
Solution: recycle, stop using
New environmentally friendly plastic bags are more susceptible to decomposition but not durable.
Plastic waste does not disappear, but only decomposes into microplastics.
Microplastics can be in human food.
Food chain: on the top of that is human and at the bottom is zooplankton

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- The government has recently attempted to reduce the amount of plastic bags
- Plastic bags are dangerous cuz: takes hundred of years to decompose => litter streets, clog pipes...
- Solutions: + recycle
+ stop using
- John McGuire: new special plastic bags decompose more easily than existing plastic bags
- Neil thinks: biodegradable bags are not durable
- Food chain: Microplastic -> Zooplankton -> sea creatures -> human

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The government has recently attempted to reduce the amount of plastic bags.
The show: Impact of plastic on the environment.
Plastic bags are environmentally dangerous because they don't break down until hundreds year later.
Some solutions: Recycle or stop using plastic bags.
A company has developed the new special plastics bags which decompose more easily.
Zooplankton eat most of microplastics -> sea creatures eat zooplankton -> become part of human's food.
Food chain: Zooplankton is at the bottom of the food chain

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- The Government cut down the amount of plastic bags. Charging when people use plastic bags is an example.
- Plastic bags are dangerous to the environment because of the long period of time they need to decompose
- There are new special plastic bags that may break down when exposed to sunlight, oxygen and heat. But Neil thinks they are not durable
- According to Dr Pennie Lindeque, Microplastic could become humans' food
- Food chain: microplastic-zooplankton-sea creatures-human

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the government initiative: cut down the number of thin plastic bags

The subject of the show: Impact of Plastic on the environment

A few yrs ago: countries in the UK charge plastic bag

Other countries in the world recently banned the use of plastic bags

Solutions: recycle or stop using.

A pharmaceutical company has been developing a plastic bag with additives breakdown when exposed to sunlight, oxygen, heat.

- Neil: biodegradable bags are not durable
- Dr. Pennie Lindeque: microplastic - part of human food
- :human <- sea creatures <- zooplanktons <- microplastic = food chain

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-plastic bags don't break down until hundreds of years later
-many countries try to stop using plastic bags or recycle
-a company in north London tested to make biodegradable bags=> it isn't harmful to the environment
-300 mil tons of plastic produced every , year, some goes in landfill, 10% ends up in the sea
-zooplanktons ingested microplastic=> sea creatures=> human consumes sea creature

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-The government: attemp to reduce the amount of plastic bags.
-Plastic bags are dangerous b/c they do not break down until hundreds os years later.
- John McGuire: new special plastic bags was testing in some laboratory work, decompose more easily than existing plastic bags.
-Neil: biodegradable bags are not durable, should use canvas bags.
-10% of 300.000.000 tons of plastic produced every year goes in to sea.
-Dr Pennie: Microplastics => Zooplankton => Human's food.
-Zooplankton: at the bottom of the food chain.

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-The government has recently attempted to reduce the amount of plastic bags
-Plastic bags are environmentally dangerous because they don't break down until hundreds of years later
+ cause: decompose, clog pipes,...
+ solution: recycle, stop using
-John McGuire implies that the new special plastic bags decompose more easily than existing plastic bags
-Neil: biodergraduable  bags not durable
- Zooplanktons ingested microplastic=>> sea creatures ingested zooplanktons=>> microplastics become part of human's food
- Zooplanktons : at the bottom of the food chain.

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Plastic bags rule
-The UK gov tries to reduce amount of plastic bags: They're charging for plastic bags
-Other countries did this too
-People started to reuse bags because of the rule

Plastic bags harm environment because:
-They decompose for a long time
-They clog drain, spoiled wildlife
-Tons of them being shipped from UK-> China

Solutions:
-Reuse
-Bio degradeable bags: add chemicals to plastic

A lot of plastic dumped into the sea per year:
-Micro plastic ingested by zooplanktion-> plastic ended up in our food

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- plastic bags
+ the government has recently attempted to reduce the amount of it
+ environmentally dangerous because they don't break down until hundreds of years later
+ people don't dispose them carefully ->litter streets, clog pipes,..
+ new special plasstic bags decompose more easily than existing one.
+ solution: recycle, stop using
- Neil: biodegradable bags are not durable
- food chain:  zooplankton-> microplastic-> sea creatures-> human

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- Recent government imitative: cut down the number of plastic bags.
- Subject: impact of plastic
- why plastic bags are bad for environment: hundreds of years to decompose, pp don't dispose properly, litter on streets...
- Solution: recycle, stop using plastics
- develop a plastic bag with additives breaks down when exposed to light, oxygen, heat.
- 300m tons of plastics produced annually. some -> landfill, 10% -> sea
- plastics ingested by zooplankton -> marine animals mistake zooplankton for food -> pp end up eating them: food chain
- 200 thousands tons of plastics sent to China a year

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According to the government, thin plastic bags must be cut.
-Drop out the topic of how plastic affects the environment?
"In recent years, the UK has charged a fee for plastic bags.
Some countries have been banning the use of plastic bags.
// Solution: Must mobilize and limit the use of either degrading or recycling.
_ prohibited to use

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- Government has recently attempted to reduce plastic bags and other countries banned plastic bags
- Plastic bags dangerous for environment  because it don't decompose untill hundred of years later
- Some solutions: stop using and recycle plastic bags
- New special plastic bags decompose more easily than old plastic bags and it more benefit to the environment.
- Biodegradable bags aren't very durable
- About microplastic: become part of human food. Zooplankton eated micro plastic and sea living creatures eat zooplankton, then human eated sea living creatures-> human is the bottom of food chain.

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- The government initiative: reduce the amount of thin plastic bags.
- Cause: people don’t dispose them carefully, litter streets, clog pipes,…
- Solution: recycle, stop using
- John McGuire:
new special ones: decompose more easily when exposing to enviromental factors: sunlight, oxygen, etc.
- Neil: biodegradable bags not very durable.
- Zooplankton:
+ eat most of microplastics - part of human food. (Dr Pennie Lindeque)
+ at bottom of the food chain.

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Conversation between Neil and Alice about plastic bags
- The goverment's law: Attempt to reduce the amount of plastic bags. Other countries arounf the world has banned the use of plastic bag
- Solutions: recycle, stop using plastic bags
- Reasons that plastics bags are harmful to the enviroment
- A short interview with John McGuire about new special plastics bags that decompose more easily than existing plastic bags
- Neil's opinion about biogradable bags are not very durable
- A interview with Dr Pennie Lindeque about microplastics: They could become part of humans' food
- Food chain: Zooplankton is at the bottom of the food chain: zooplankton-> microplastic-> sea creatures-> human

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- Government attempt to reduce amount of plastic bags
- Plastic bag dangerous ->not decompose till hundreds of yrs later
+ Cause: people don’t dispose them carefully, litter streets, clog pipes,…
+ Solution: recycle, stop using
- John Mc Guire: new special plastic bags decompose easily than existing ones
- Neil: biodegradable bags not durable
- Dr Pennie Lindeque: microplastic - part of human food
- microplastics is the bottom of food chain

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The government has recently attempt to reduce the amount of plastic bags.
Plastic bags are bad for the environment because they don't break down until hundreds of years later.
The company laboratory in North London that testing have made with a special attitude breakdow when exposed to sunlight, oxygen and heat ->now it is sold around half the world's countries.
Biodegradable bags are not very durable.
Zooplankton actually eat most of microplastics.
Microplastics is at the bottom of the food chain.

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- government attempted to reduce the amount of plastic bags
- plastic bags are environmentally dangerous because they dont break down until 100 years
- John McGuire implies that the new special plastic decompose more easily than existing plastic bags
- Neil thinks biodegradable bags not very durable
- microplastic can be in human food

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- The government has recently attempted to reduce the amount of plastic bags.
- plastic bags -> bad impact on the environment : hard to decompose, litter streets..
-Other countries has banned the use of plastic bags
-Solution: Create the new special plastic bags, stop using
-Neil :Biodegradable bags are not very durable
-Zooplankton actually eat most of them

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main topic: Impact of plastic on the environment
goverment initiative: reduce the amount of plastic bags
Plastic bags take hundreds of years to decompose or break down by natural chemical processes
people don't dispose of them properly, litter streets...
solution: recycle, stop using plastic bags
At the company laboratory in North London they're testing how bags made with a special additive break down when exposed to sunlight, oxygen and heat… -> sold to around half the world's countries.
According to Dr Pennie Lindeque, Microplastic could become humans' food
Food chain: microplastic->zooplankton->sea creatures->human

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-Situation: the plastic bag using habit -> government initiative to cut down the number of plastic bags
-The reason for its harms:
+take hundreds of years to decompose or become break down by natural process
_ People litter on the street
- Solution: recycle or stop using plastic bags
-John Mc Guire:a company develop a plastic bag with additives breakdown when exposed to sunlight, oxygen, heat => new special plastic bags decompose easily than existing ones
- Neil: biodegradable bags not durable
- Dr Pennie Lindeque: microplastic
- Food chain: Hman, sea, creatủe, zooplanktón, microplastic

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- Recent government's attempt: reduce the amount plastic bags
- Reason why plastic bags are dangerous:         +not break down til hundreds of yrs later
+not disposed carefully, litter streets, log pipes...
-Sollutions:
+recyle
+stop using
- John Mc Guire: new special plastic bags decompose easily than existing ones
- Neil: biodegradable bags not durable
- Dr Pennie Lindeque: microplastic
- Food chain: microplastic-> zooplankton-> sea creatures-> human

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Topic: the impact of plastic bag
- Recent government initiative: cut the number of thin plastic bags being given away in shops
- Other countries in the UK started charging for plastic bags a few years ago
- Reasons plastic bags are bad for the environment:
+ take hundreds of years to decompose
+ people don't dispose properly
- Solutions:
+ John McGuire: biodegradable bags are backed by law
+ Adding small amounts of a chemical to plastic => break down in the open air
- Reasons why biodegradable bags are not being used in many countries:
+ Aren't strong enough
- Zooplanktons ingested microplastics => it could be our food
- Zooplanktons= at the bottom of the food chain

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Plastic bag
- The government in many countries try to reduce the amount of plastic bag
- Plastic bag don't breakdown, decompose until hundreds of year => dangerous
- Solutions: recycle, stop using plastic bag
- Plastic bag can turn out people food
- People can eat the food contain microplastic