The Last Straw: Kids Vs. Plastics Flashcards
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Is plastic fantastic?
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No doubt about it!
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Where in the world would we be without it?
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Where would hospitals be if medical tools weren’t germ- free?
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How in the world would we safely play sports without proper gear on our fields and our courts?
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What in the world would we want to eat if food wasn’t fresh in the store down the street?
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Where in the world would technology be?
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Think smartphones, computers!
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Or is it a curse?
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It makes our lives better.
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But could they get worse?
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Imagine medicine without disposable surgical gloves, IV bags, syringes, pacemakers, stents; sports without helmets, googles, mouth guards, life vests; grocery stores without protective food wrapping.
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Listen to the seagulls cry, watching whales who used to thrive in seas of cobalt blue.
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Those mighty mammals ruled the waves - a most majestic crew!
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Listen to the seagulls cry, watching whales who breach and dive in seas of plastic stew.
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Whales eat their fill of bags and cups and other human spew.
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Listen to the seagulls cry, watching whales who can’t survive sink slowly out of view…O wisest of the mammals, please!
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Sea change is up to you.
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The (whales) that land on the beach are…just the tip of the iceberg.
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They’re just the ones we see.
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Round and round and round it flows, and every year it grows and grows.
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Pounds and pounds of trashed debris, a monster vortex swirls the sea.
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Like the other ocean gyres, the great Pacific reels with tires, bottles, toys, old fishing nets, stirrers, straws, and cigarettes.
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Broken bits, confetti soup, turn the seas to toxic goop.
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We need a plan, a new solution.
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We need an eco-revolution!
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Pushed by the wind and circling currents called gyres, submerged trash (which some estimate to be more than twice the size of Texas) swirls clockwise around the North Pacific Ocean.
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More like a trash soup than an island, it concentrates in two dense spirals,
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But only time will tell if his idea will work on a larger scale.
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Say no, no thank you, not today.
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No, not next week or any day!
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Tell your stores to take a stand.
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Bags float on air and snag the trees, they swirl on currents round the seas.
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Sea turtles spy a favorite dish - mistaking bags for jellyfish!
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They eat them up, they get their fill, and starve to death.
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Those bags can kill.
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Take your own tote bag to town.
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Cloth and canvas can't be beat.
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If you counted these bags one bag per second, it would take you (and your decendants!) nearly 3,200 years!
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There once was a google-eyed guy who gobbled the trash floating by.
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The Baltimore river would always deliver.
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It seemed like an endless supply!
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They brought it to town.
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He swallowed it down.
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Did it give him a big bellyache?
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Citywide, Mr. Trash is adored for gulping this gross smorgasbord.
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He keeps trash away from fish in the bay.
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He deserves a clean-ocean award!
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That's like dumping 85,000-180,000 school buses into the ocean!
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Since his 2014 installation, Mr. Trash Wheel has gobbled up more than 1,000 tons of trash floating down the Jones Falls River, preventing it from flowing into Baltimore harbor and the ocean.
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Kids from Waverly Elementary School and Commodore John Rogers Elementary School celebrated Mr. Trash Wheels birthday by feeding him trash cake.
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Statistics on items collected by Mr. Trash Wheel helped a student-led fight against styrofoam that resulted in one of the first statewide bans.
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Some bullies can often be cruel.
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She pulled out the stops to melt bottle tops for a buddy bench for her school.
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Now kids who are lonely or shy can signal to those passing by: if you want to come play, please sit here today.
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A friendship begins saying "Hi!"
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If someone is lonely they can go sit on the bench and others know to go up and ask them to play.
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Her pile would weigh more than eight 200-pound humans!
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This is the boy who sold some toys, all for the love of frogs.
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He raised some cash and picked up trash, all for the love of frogs.
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He spread the word.
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His city heard!
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All for the love of frogs.
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They cleaned the pond and tadpoles spawned.
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That was the start - he gave his heart, all for the love of frogs.
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Frogs are telling us the world needs our help.
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Crystal bells, pulse and swish, all hail the stunning jellyfish!
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Boneless, spineless, brainless, bloodless, they've bloomed across seas endlessly, for centuries.
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The key? Jellyfish snot, believe it or not!
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Icky, slicky, tricky, sticky!
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Scientists' new focus?
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Mucus hocus-pocus filtering the ocean - a spellbinding potion!
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What's the secret in the snot of this ancient Argonaut?
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Dive in, Science, swim and swish.
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All hail the stunning jellyfish!
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Once stood tall, full to the brim, flanked by my friends, row upon row.
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Where would we go?
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What would we be?
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Then, suddenly, I was turned upside down, left empty, alone, all on my own.
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Week after week, blown far from home, sniffed by stray dogs, kicked down the paths, forgotten, trashed.
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One sunny day, an amigo reached out to me.
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"Perfecto," he said.
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Does he mean me?
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Now I stand tall, full to the brim, flanked by my friends, some old, some new, row upon row.
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Now we all know what we can be.
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Something so cool - a school.
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Ecobricks are cheaper than cement blocks and act as good insulation.
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By building bottle schools in Guatemala, entire communities come together to clean up their environment...and kids get to say, 'I helped build my own school!'
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The munching, crunching caterpillars lived in a beehive feeding on beeswax
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munch, munch, munch.
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The very tall beekeeper plunked those pesky caterpillars into a plastic bag - scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
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Sometimes the smallest among us can help solve our biggest problems.
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The munching, crunching caterpillars lived in the bag, feeding on plastic - crunch, crunch, crunch.
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Forty minutes later the bag was full of holes.
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The munching, crunching caterpillars did something fantastic.
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The munching, crunching caterpillars gave scientists a hunch, hunch, hunch!
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He noticed straws used in excess.
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His big idea's a huge success - "Be Straw Free" is taking hold!
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But drastically cutting straw usage is cheaper for restaurants and reduces waste.
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I want to install my solar heater in homes of indigenous communities in Chiapas so that people will no longer get sick (from bathing) with cold water.
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Fed Up?
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Get up. Rev up. Join Up!
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Clean up. Dream Up.
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Goof Up? Fix up! Rise Up!
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Stand up. Speak up.
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Shake things up!
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Just don't give up!
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Spread the word.
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They won a Points of Light Award, and their campaign was discussed in the House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament, and the Welsh Assembly!
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We may think the problem's too big and we are too small.
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Just kids after all.
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What can we do...?
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I can pick up a bottle, a flip-flop, a straw.
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And you can too. And you. And You. And YOU!
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Many hands, many faces, many lands, many races can scrap the old ways and piece together a craft - an ark, a lifeboat, a patchwork of many colors - to sail the seven seas, to tell the world this is our home and it's worth changing course to protect it.
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There's rough water ahead - riptides, dire straits - but we can come about, trim our sails, and follow our North Star.
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Our lives depend on it.
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Come, step aboard.
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Plot your course.
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Take the helm - it's your watch.
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This voyage begins with you.
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