The Importance Of Aging In Australia

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This project was chosen because of the severity of the issue at hand. There are many environmental and sustainability concerns with this topic but this journey of inquiry has been narrowed down to cover plastic. As the Australian population grows and more shopping centres are being built to comply with the need of consumers, so is the need for plastic bags. More than 100,000 animals die every year after ingesting or becoming entangled in them ("Say 'NO ' to plastic bags!", 2016). In the Ocean crusaders article about plastic statistics (2012), it states that Australia uses 6.9 billion plastic bags a year which turns out to be 36,700 tonnes of plastic that ends up in landfill and only 10% of Australians recycle them.
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