Hook/ Attention Getter: Did you know that 50% of plastics we use, we use just once and throw away. ( use hand movements) How many of yall had to help mom or dad put away the groceries before? There's tons of plastic bags everywhere, and what usually happens when you take the food out of them? They get thrown away, sometimes you recycle maybe one or two. The average American throws away approximately 185 pounds of plastic per year. ( use hand movements)
Reid 2
Plastic bags are so light that when we throw them away they blow out of trash bags and end up in landfills, or in the ocean. Plastics bags takes approximately 10- 1000 years to decompose. The earth will be paying for plastic bags longer than we will.
Reason to Listen / Thesis: As
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Body
(transition) You're probably wondering how do the plastics we use in the stores possibly affect the ocean?
II. Main Point One
a.) The three ways plastic get into the ocean are by:
Plastic litters when they dispose plastic bags wherever they drop it on the ground, giving the plastics full range to travel with the help of the wind
Reid 3
Another example would be the plastic bags that didn’t go to a waste management system because the plastics were left behind on streets, or accidently dropped. Often getting blown into rivers or drains, that eventually end up in the sea
Personal care and cosmetics that get washed down the drain for example face scrubs, shower gels , and some toothpaste
Transition : How this applies to you is wherever you go to a grocery store to pick up food you have the power to make a change and a choice to use plastics, paper, or your own bag that is biodegradable. Here’s why this small swop is so critical for our