2. TRUE True or False? Marine animals often mistake
bits of plastic for food
TRUE
Whales often think plastic bags are jelly fish. Fish mistake small bits of plastic for plankton.

3. Plastic rubbish kills as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.
True or False?
Plastic rubbish kills as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.
True
Animals die from eating plastic or getting tangled and trapped.

4. 80% of all the plastic waste in the sea is dumped by ships.
True or False?
80% of all the plastic waste in the sea is dumped by ships.
False
Only 20% is dumped by ships the other 80% was thrown away by us on land. Plastic is blown or washed into drains, streams, rivers and eventually finds it’s way into the sea.

5. True or False?
In one year the UK uses enough plastic bottles of water to circle the earth once.
False
We use enough plastic water bottles to circle the world twice!

6. REFUSE Say no to plastic straws
Say no to plastic bottles - Get a reusable drinking bottle
Say no to plastic bags - Carry your own bag

7. REDUCE Find an alternative to plastic party bags full of plastic toys
Encourage your parents to buy fruit and vegetables that are not wrapped in plastic.
Use soap instead of liquid soap in plastic bottles

8. REUSE Buy toys from the charity shop
Take your plastic toys to the charity shop
Wash and keep packaging to use again
Use plastic pots to store things in
Use plastic for art or craft projects

9. RECYCLE Recycle as much plastic as you possibly can
You can recycle bottles, bags, trays and other packaging
Image from schools pack

10. Top Tips to reduce plastic
1. Use a reusable stainless steel drinking bottle instead of buying plastic bottles.
2. Remember to take reusable shopping bags when you go shopping.
3. Use soap instead of body wash in plastic bottles.
4. Use metal cutlery instead of plastic, and paper plates instead of plastic.
5. Say ʻNOʼ to plastic straws.

11. Top Tips to reduce plastic
6. Take unwanted plastic toys to the charity shop.
7. If you are planning a party bag don’t choose plastic toys.
8. Reuse plastic things for craft projects
Reuse plastic boxes and other plastic things if you can.
Recycle as much plastic as you can.

12. Dear Albatross I did not know My plastic things could hurt you so
The bottle tops I sometimes drop
My slurpy, bendy straws
Elastic bands I like to flick
Balloons that twist for birthday tricks
I really had not one idea
That the plastic I see here
On my streets and in my home
Would find its way to where you roam

13. Dear Albatross continued..
I did not know that my streets litter
Gets rained into the Thames to flitter
Along its twisty tidal path
Into the sea where its journey starts
To frolic over ocean waves
Until in reaches your domain
Where now I know you think its food
And feed it to your new born brood

14. Dear Albatross continued…
Oh Albatross I understand
What plastic does to you is really bad
I promise to recycle things
I would have once put in the bin
And I promise I will never drop
Wrappers from the sweetie shop
But most of all I will refuse
Plastic that only once I use
I will tell one person every day
That plastic never goes away
But finds its way out to the sea
Where creatures eat it for their tea.

15. The Wandering Albatross

16. Albatrosses spend almost all their lives at sea
Albatrosses spend almost all their lives at sea. They even sleep on the ocean. Once an albatross reaches adulthood it will fly out to sea and might not return back to the land for up to five years.
Albatrosses eat squid and fish they catch from the surface of the water. The parents have special stomachs that digest some food but keep aside a fishy oil, which they vomit up to feed their chicks.

17. The wandering albatross has a wingspan of 3
The wandering albatross has a wingspan of 3.5 metres - more than three times your arm span.
Albatrosses can live for up to 70 years. Unfortunately, because they now face so many hazards from humans it is rare for them to die a natural death.
Of the 22 known albatross species, 19 are now threatened with extinction.

19. REAL ALBATROSS (May be upsetting)

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