Week 4 Plastic Pollution by Clare Stephenson

Sarah's class - Kammy

2018-10-15 13:43:37 UTC

1. What else can we do to protect the ocean besides the methods in the text?

Fangzhou-Sarah's class Q1:What's the plastic bags policy in your country?

2018-10-15 13:44:03 UTC

Fangzhou-Sarah's class Q2:How does charging for plastic bags affect people's consumption psychology and behavior?

2018-10-15 13:44:08 UTC

Fangzhou-Sarah'sclass Q3:Do you know why the pollution caused by plastic waste is permanent?

2018-10-15 13:44:10 UTC

Fangzhou-Sarah's class Q4:What's main difference between control plastic bags pollution and microbeads pollution?

2018-10-15 13:44:12 UTC

Fangzhou-Sarah'sclass Q5:Which policy in the table(page20-21) is most effective?Why?

2018-10-15 13:44:15 UTC

Sarah's class - Kammy

2018-10-15 13:44:27 UTC

2. Why there is economic losses occur since plastic pollution?

Sarah's class - Kammy

2018-10-15 13:44:56 UTC

3. Do you think that the plastic bag levy can effectively reduce the use of plastic bags? Have you brought own bags when you go shopping?

Sarah's class - Kammy

2018-10-15 13:50:03 UTC

4. Do you think education is a good way to reduce marine pollution? Is there any similar education in current schools?

Sarah's class - Kammy

2018-10-15 13:50:25 UTC

5. Before you buy things, will you check if the ingredients are environmentally friendly? Will it be your concerns of buying it? (e.g. toothpaste, cleansing foam….)

Sarah's Class - LI MINGLIANG

2018-10-15 17:04:17 UTC

Is it an equal method for developing countries to follow the environmental governance that formulates by international groups?

Sarah's Class - LI MINGLIANG

2018-10-15 17:10:25 UTC

What can we do in our daily life to reduce the plastic pollution?

Sarah's Class - LI MINGLIANG

2018-10-15 17:12:26 UTC

Do you think it is easy to fix with environment pollution on the ground or in the seas?

Sarah's Class - LI MINGLIANG

2018-10-15 17:14:43 UTC

The bag bans have got great achievement. Can you find out other good ways for government to deal with the problem?

Sarah's Class - LI MINGLIANG

2018-10-15 17:18:26 UTC

Is there any other emergence problem about the environment in our world?

Gemma‘s Bunny

2018-10-16 08:24:13 UTC

1.What are the significant source of Marine Plastic Pollution

Gemma‘s Bunny

2018-10-16 08:24:43 UTC

2.Did the signed stop the marine pollution as governments had expected? Why?

Gemma‘s Bunny

2018-10-16 08:32:02 UTC

3.How to define Micro plastics and macro plastics?which one will pose more threat to the ocean?

Gemma‘s Bunny

2018-10-16 08:32:26 UTC

4.Which country was the first one to announce its intent to be free of microbeads in cosmetics?

Gemma‘s Bunny

2018-10-16 08:33:08 UTC

5.In this article, which areas on the word have completely banned the use of plastic bag? which areas only have some limited implementation of interventions.

Clare's Class- Harshesh (Z)

2018-10-16 13:31:43 UTC

According to the text there is ban and laws are in effects even though the pollution has not being reduced. What are the possible reasons?

Clare's Class- Harshesh (Z)

2018-10-16 13:33:09 UTC

Do you think that charging taxes or partial taxes can stop the use of plastics? Give reasons to your answers.

Clare's Class- Harshesh (Z)

2018-10-16 13:33:56 UTC

According to your opinion which other substance can be use to eradicate the use of microbeads in cosmetic products?

Clare's Class- Harshesh (Z)

2018-10-16 13:35:24 UTC

What are the possible ways to depose or reuse in other ways so we can reduce the amount of plastic pollution?

nabor's class

2018-10-16 16:45:37 UTC

nabor's class--Jingwei Yu

2018-10-16 16:50:13 UTC

Whether the government's policies are working to reduce plastic marine pollution from single-use plastics ？

Clare's Class-Hanpu Chen

2018-10-17 14:32:23 UTC

What are the reasons and impacts of the plastic marine pollution?

Clare's Class-Hanpu Chen

2018-10-17 14:32:54 UTC

What are the differences between microplastics and macroplastics?

Clare's Class-Hanpu Chen

2018-10-17 14:33:49 UTC

What are the international policies to reduce the plastic marine pollution?

Clare's Class-Hanpu Chen

2018-10-17 14:34:03 UTC

How can we improve the marine environment in the future?

Clare's class - Echo

2018-10-17 15:05:43 UTC

In addition to the methods have mentioned in the article, how can we get far away from plastic pollution in daily life?

Clare's class - Echo

2018-10-17 15:06:50 UTC

What will the ban of plastics affect on companies that make plastics?

Clare's class - Echo

2018-10-17 15:07:38 UTC

Do you think the plastic bag levy can effectively reduce the use of plastic?

Clare's class - Echo

2018-10-17 15:07:50 UTC

Do you think that the companies are in charge of plastic marine pollution?

Clare's class - Echo

2018-10-17 15:08:26 UTC

What should companies do to reduce plastic pollution?

Clare’s class -kaijian

2018-10-17 18:10:40 UTC

Do u think to ban the plastic bag use is the only way to relieve plastic pollution? If not please explain your idea.

Kirsty's Class-Jinbo

2018-10-17 19:38:58 UTC

1）Whether Microplastics or Macroplastics have more impact on the human being? why?

Kirsty's Class-Jinbo

2018-10-17 19:40:44 UTC

2）Do you think the tax on the single-use plastic bag is a good way to reduce the use of plastic bags? why?

Kirsty's Class-Jinbo

2018-10-17 19:41:35 UTC

3）why does author think education is an extremely valuable way to reduce the use of single-use plastic?

Kirsty's Class-Jinbo

2018-10-17 19:42:29 UTC

4）In your opinion, why some cities have independently banned them although their countries have not banned plastic bags.

Kirsty's Class-Jinbo

2018-10-17 19:42:47 UTC

5）what is the aim of this article?

Clare's Class-kaijian

2018-10-17 19:52:44 UTC

What kind of agreement is the main international agreement to guild countries reduce plastic pollution?

Clare's Class-kaijian

2018-10-17 19:56:59 UTC

why the man made garbage is only 10% by mass but the ocean still suffered serious pollution?

Clare's Class-kaijian

2018-10-17 19:58:57 UTC

what do you think the reason of some countries refuse to ban plastic bag ?

B's class Andy

2018-10-17 19:59:55 UTC

Q: Entanglement of species by marine debris can cause？

B's class Andy

2018-10-17 20:00:54 UTC

Q: What’s the growing concern related to microplastic effecting on human and what do studies found?

B's class Andy

2018-10-17 20:01:41 UTC

Q: How about the interventions for plastic bags in North America?

B's class Andy

2018-10-17 20:02:01 UTC

Q: What’s UK government plans to do in 2016 and by what means it was successes

B's class Andy

2018-10-17 20:02:19 UTC

Q: What’s manufacturers across UK doing to release the environment pollution cause by plastic.

Clare's Class-kaijian

2018-10-17 20:03:10 UTC

Why plastic pollution will bringing economic lose for human society?

Clare's class- Rei

2018-10-18 08:02:52 UTC

1. How micrplastics affect the marine environment?

Clare's class- Rei

2018-10-18 08:03:13 UTC

2. What strategies did the government use to decrease the use of plastic bags? Please find the examples from any countries which has been mentioned in the article

Clare's class- Rei

2018-10-18 08:04:23 UTC

3. What did UK governments do to deal with the microbeads problems in 2016?

Clare's class- Rei

2018-10-18 08:04:45 UTC

4. What method can ensure that the interventions are being complied with due to lack of information on banning microbeads? Please find an example in the article of how it works.

Clare's class- Rei

2018-10-18 08:05:03 UTC

5. Are there any legislations for banning the use of plastic or microbeads in your country?

Clare's Class-Ramona

2018-10-18 08:05:08 UTC

1.Making deep sea become the largest global marine litter
depocentre.Besides,microbeads are commonly white or opaque in colour, and research has found microbeads to be commonly mistaken for plankton by many surface feeding fish species. Ingestion of plastics by aquatic organisms is one of the major deleterious environmental impacts in the marine environment.A growing concern related to microplastics is that they can also enter the human food chain through ingestion of fish, shellfish and filter feeders,causing potential human health impacts.

Clare's Class-Ramona

2018-10-18 08:06:38 UTC

2. Governments all over the world have strategies to ban the sale of lightweight bags, charge customers for lightweight bags and/or generate taxes from stores who sell them.For example,in Denmark, legislation was passed that enforces plastic bag manufacturers to pay tax based on the weight of plastic bags. Retail stores are able to pass the cost of the tax on to consumers. Today, plastic bags cost consumers between 37 and 65 US cents.In addition,in South Africa, Legislation passed to place a ban on plastic bags b30 μm thick. Plastic bags N30 μm were subjected to the imposition of a levy. Enforcement of the plastic bag ban has been poor. Acceptance of the levy by consumers has seen high levels of consumption continue.

Clare's Class-Ramona

2018-10-18 08:07:47 UTC

3.In 2016,the UK government announced plans to ban microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products by the end of 2017.

Clare's Class-Ramona

2018-10-18 08:07:52 UTC

4.(1) Monitoring can ensure that interventions are being adhered to. In South Africa,insufficient monitoring of plastic bag consumption resulted in an ineffective plastic bag prevention scheme; the levy was too small, and, overtime,reductions in plastic bag use ceased.Besides,monitoring of microplastic beads inwastewater effluent could reveal baseline data of microplastic releases into the aquatic or marine environment.
(2)Following the ban of the sale and manufacture of cosmetics and personal care products containing microbeads, the UK government announced plans to gather evidence of environmental impacts on the marine environment from microbeads in household and industrial cleaning products, as well as microfibers.

Clare's Class-Ramona

2018-10-18 08:07:59 UTC

5.As far as I know,In China,legislation passed to ban shops,supermarkets,
and sales outlets from providing free plastic bags that are b25 μm thick. For bags N25 μm, a levy was put in place. Exemptions from the ban were in place for hygiene reasons in the handling and storage of fresh food.

Kirsty's class- YINGTING WANG

2018-10-18 10:08:26 UTC

1. Is it worth or not to sacrifice the environment for economic development?

Kirsty's class- YINGTING WANG

2018-10-18 10:09:32 UTC

2. Do you agree that solving the marine pollution is just government business? why? if not, what can people do to help solve marine pollution?

Kirsty's class- YINGTING WANG

2018-10-18 10:10:00 UTC

3. Except for the methods mentioned in the article, what can government do to reduce pollution?

Kirsty's class- YINGTING WANG

2018-10-18 10:10:20 UTC

4. Do you agree that developed countries should pay more to reduce marine pollution than developing countries?

Kirsty's class - YINGTING WANG

2018-10-18 10:10:45 UTC

5. What do you think about the reasons that plastic bags and microbead increased dramatically?

Kirsty's class- Answers to Tibby's questions- Guanyou Chen

2018-10-18 12:30:00 UTC

The development of economy based on sacrificing the environment is not worth at all. Every single country around the globe has faced environmental problems, in different years. Some of them paid attention before there are actual environmental problems existed. For instance, Canada requires a environmental detection before every project Canada ever started, even small businesses like operating a convenient store still requires a environmental detection. However, China just realized the risk of developing economy by using environment as the cost far more recent years. The cost of remediation of environmental problems are way higher than the cost of environmental protection in advance

Kirsty's class- Answers to Tibby's questions- Guanyou Chen

2018-10-18 12:43:49 UTC

Problems will never solved by solely relying on authoritative organizations such as government. Government has the responsibility to advocate the actions, indeed, it is really the public's job to do the work no matter individually or collaboratively. Individuals are responsible to supervise others.

Kirsty's class- Answers to Tibby's questions- Guanyou Chen

2018-10-18 12:50:02 UTC

Pollution comes not only from industry's waste, but also tourism.
Government can out stage some policies to tourists, for instance paying penalties for carelessly drop litters.Furthermore, regulations on fishing industry still matter. Environmental protections are not only what in mentioned in the article. protect the ecosystem in a macro perspective is the ultimate goal.

Kirsty's class- Answers to Tibby's questions- Guanyou Chen

2018-10-18 13:01:34 UTC

Hard to say, it really depends on different kinds of countries. If countries' GDP mainly rely on shipment, exports and imports, they have more responsibilities in terms of marine protection. It doesn't really matter whether it is a developed country or a developing country.

Gemma's Class-LIN,YIMIN

yi_min — 2018-10-18 13:03:35 UTC

1. Why country want to ban plastic?

Gemma's Class-LIN,YIMIN

yi_min — 2018-10-18 13:04:46 UTC

Why education will likely help to further reduce plastic pollution caused by microbeads and plastic bags at source?

Gemma's Class-LIN,YIMIN

yi_min — 2018-10-18 13:05:04 UTC

Why USA doesn’t ban plastic bag in whole country?

Gemma's Class-LIN,YIMIN

yi_min — 2018-10-18 13:05:36 UTC

Do you think it’s a good policy to ban single-use plastics,if it’s good ,why it’s not every country in the world ban it?

Gemma's Class-LIN,YIMIN

yi_min — 2018-10-18 13:06:07 UTC

Do you think it’s necessary for government to deal with plastic pollution by policy?

Nabor's class-Holiday

2018-10-18 14:10:16 UTC

1.What's the differences between microplastic and microplastic ?

Nabor's class-Holiday

2018-10-18 14:11:16 UTC

2.What is Microbead & microbead policies?

Nabor's class-Holiday

2018-10-18 14:12:33 UTC

3.Are there any plastic bags inhibitions in your countries? Do you think they are effective?

Nabor's class-Holiday

2018-10-18 14:13:15 UTC

4.what kind of threats that plastic will pose to marine animals? Can you give some examples?

Nabor's class-Holiday

2018-10-18 14:14:02 UTC

5.Do you think legislations will indeed help solve these problems?

Ian's class - Summer (Sohyeon Lee)

2018-10-18 14:45:41 UTC

1. What are some policies in your country that are being implemented to reduce single-use plastics?

Kirsty's Class - Charles

2018-10-18 14:47:42 UTC

1. What can we do to reduce plastics pollution?

Ian's class - Summer (Sohyeon Lee)

2018-10-18 14:48:04 UTC

2. What are some other personal efforts beside policy in our daily life?

Ian's class - Summer (Sohyeon Lee)

2018-10-18 14:49:11 UTC

3. What kinds of efforts can companies make other than the nation and the individual?

Ian's class - Summer (Sohyeon Lee)

2018-10-18 14:49:59 UTC

4. Do you think the policy to ban or levy taxed for reducing plastic bags is effective?

Ian's class - Summer (Sohyeon Lee)

2018-10-18 14:51:46 UTC

5. What else affects marine pollution other than plastics?

Kirsty's Class - Charles

2018-10-18 14:54:26 UTC

2. Which government’s policy or strategy do you think is the most effective?

Kirsty's Class- Charles

2018-10-18 15:00:48 UTC

3. Do you think there are any shortcoming or limitation in governments’ policy and strategies?

Kirsty's Class - Charles

2018-10-18 15:01:07 UTC

4. Do you agree that education and outreach programs is crucial to reduce marine pollution?

Kirsty's Class - Charles

2018-10-18 15:01:30 UTC

5. What else can different stakeholders do to reduce plastics pollution? (e.g citizens, governments, industry and NGOs )

Gemma's class47-Andrew's group: What do you think is the author trying to suggest in the article?

2018-10-19 09:14:21 UTC

The authors suggest to improve the waste disposal methods of plastic and micro-beads as well as reduce to reduce plastic bag production and consumption.

Gemma‘s class-Qingwei Luo

2018-10-19 09:16:47 UTC

1.Why will education campaigns have a further reduction in plastic pollution?

Gemma's class-Qingwei Luo

2018-10-19 09:17:49 UTC

2.Compared to plastic bags, why do governments have limited interventions to reduce microbeads?

Gemma's class-Qingwei Luo

2018-10-19 09:18:36 UTC

3.What may be affected by marine plastic pollution except marine life and economic development?

Gemma's class-Qingwei Luo

2018-10-19 09:20:05 UTC

4.How to evaluate the effectiveness of the policies?

Gemma's class-Qingwei Luo

2018-10-19 09:21:50 UTC

5.Is there any personal efforts besides policies in our daily life

Nabor's class-Jingyi Chen

2018-10-19 10:27:55 UTC

Is there any new policy in your country to mitigate the worsen trend caused by plastic pollution? how effective it is?

Nabor's class-Chaorong Cheng

2018-10-19 10:38:22 UTC

Nabor's class-Yao Chen

2018-10-19 10:41:20 UTC

Merchants will charge extra fees for plastic bags. Do you think such behavior has an impact on consumers' consumption behavior？

Nabor's class-Yujie Chen

2018-10-19 10:44:56 UTC

Are there any international policies to deal with Marine pollution? Does it work?

Mr. B's Class-Zhan Hu(Darren)

2018-10-21 14:09:48 UTC

1. How do plastics affect marine creatures and human beings?

Mr. B's Class-Zhan Hu(Darren)

2018-10-21 14:10:35 UTC

. What policies or announcements had been taken in different countries?

Mr. B's Class-Zhan Hu(Darren)

2018-10-21 14:11:16 UTC

3. How plastics policies affect the use of plastic bags in different countries?

Mr. B's Class-Zhan Hu(Darren)

2018-10-21 14:12:29 UTC

4. Which three countries or cities had trouble in implementing their policies?

Mr. B's Class-Zhan Hu (Darren

2018-10-21 14:13:22 UTC

5. What is one of the best ways to reduce plastic pollution? How to achieve it? Do you think it would work?

Mr B's class Eric

2018-10-21 15:41:51 UTC

1. How do plastics affect marine creatures and human beings?

Marine plastic pollution has become a significant environmental concern for governments, scientists, non-governmental organizations, and members of the public worldwide.

Mr B's class Eric

2018-10-21 15:42:23 UTC

Mr B's class Eric

2018-10-21 15:42:42 UTC

1. How plastics policies affect the use of plastic bags in different countries?

Governments all over the world have strategies to ban the sale of lightweight bags, charge customers for lightweight bags and generate taxes from stores who sell them.

Mr B's class Eric

2018-10-21 15:42:51 UTC

1. Which three countries or cities had trouble in implementing their policies?

China, Canada (Toronto) and Italy.

Mr B's class Eric

2018-10-21 15:42:56 UTC

1. What is one of the best ways to reduce plastic pollution? How to achieve it? Do you think it would work?

It has been reported that one of the best strategies to mitigate plastic pollution would be to reduce its consumption at source. Therefore, it is recommended that education, outreach and awareness about the issues of marine plastic pollution, particularly the contribution of plastic bags and microbeads, be conducted. As awareness grows, presumably plastic bag and microbead marine pollution would also decline.
I do not know it would work or not.

Mr B

2018-10-21 18:31:22 UTC

Mr

2018-10-21 18:31:22 UTC

Mr B`s Class-Lester answer`s to Zhan Hu`s question

2018-10-21 18:31:23 UTC

Entanglement of marine debris can cause starvation, suffocation, laceration, infection, reduced reproductive success and mortality. Many species got stuck by the net fragment litter.

Mr B`s Class-Lester answer to Zhan Hu`s question

2018-10-21 18:38:54 UTC

Levies or bans on plastic bags

Mr B`s Class-Lester answer to Zhan Hu`s question

2018-10-21 18:41:59 UTC

Mr B`s Class-Lester answer to Zhan Hu`s question

2018-10-21 18:51:47 UTC

the

Mr B`s Class-Lester answer to Zhan Hu`s question

2018-10-21 18:51:47 UTC

The consumption of plastic bags declined a lot, some cities or states independently banned plastic bags in Australia.

Mr B`s Class-Lester answer to Zhan Hu`s question

2018-10-21 18:54:14 UTC

China, Toronto and Italy.

Mr B`s Class-Lester answer to Zhan Hu`s question

2018-10-21 18:58:22 UTC

Reduce its consumption at source. Grow up the awareness about the issues of plastic bags through education. I think it would be idyllic if promote the awareness of protecting environment among people.

Gemma's class-YUE XI

2018-10-21 22:02:31 UTC

Does the MARPOL 73/78 works?Why or why not?

Gemma's class-YUE XI

2018-10-21 22:10:35 UTC

What will cause by entanglement of species?

Gemma's class-YUE XI

2018-10-21 22:14:31 UTC

What's the difference between the plastic bags policies and the microbeads policies?

Gemma's class-YUE XI

2018-10-21 22:17:49 UTC

In your opinion, how to evaluate the effectiveness of the single-use plastic policies?why?

Gemma's class-YUE XI

2018-10-21 22:23:45 UTC

Which appro

Gemma's class-YUE XI

2018-10-21 22:23:46 UTC

Which approach is better to reduce the plastics pollution?Forbidden the use of the plastic bags or charged for it?

B‘s class-sheng

2018-10-21 22:28:49 UTC

B's class-sheng

2018-10-21 22:29:51 UTC

Many cosmetic companies have also been voluntarily phasing out microbeads

B's class-sheng

2018-10-21 22:31:13 UTC

Incorporating ocean education, pollution, and waste management in schools could be extremely valuable. For example, a study by found that school children in the UK significantly improved their understanding of the causes and negative impacts of marine litter after education intervention related to plastic marine debris. Education and behavioral change of children is crucial as they represent an important source of social influence among their peers, parents and community.

B's class-sheng

2018-10-21 22:32:02 UTC

Entanglement of species by marine debris can lead to hunger, suffocation, tearing, infection, reduced reproductive success and mortality.

B's class-sheng

2018-10-21 22:32:39 UTC

Countries in Africa, Asia, and the rest of Europe have steadily introduced bans (South Africa, Bangladesh and India) or levies (Ireland) on plastic bag consumption.