| A | B |
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| The presence or introduction of harmful materials into the environment. The harmful materials are called pollutants. | Definition of Pollution |
| Pollution that originates from a single source, an easily identified and confined space. | Pin Source Pollution |
| Pollution that originates from a wide area or from multiple sources. | Non-Point Source Pollution |
| Examples of Non-Point Source Pollution | City/Suburban/Rural runoff from rain and snowmelt carrying pollutants into waterways |
| One of the most pressing environmental issues, as rapidly increasing production of plastic products overwhelm the world’s ability to deal with them | Plastic Pollution |
| Larger than 5mm in size (problem entanglement) | Macroplastics |
| Smaller than 5mm in size (problem ingestion) | Microplastics |
| “glass like”, flexible **These will sink in water | PET (Plastics-Transparent Plastics) |
| not clear less flexible **These will float in water | HDPE (Opaque Plastics) |
| Solutions to Decreasing Plastic Pollution | Using reusable grocery bags, water bottles, straws etc. -Recycle plastics -Volunteer at litter clean-ups -Reduce use of plastics |
| Ocean Clean up project is a project that is ? | developing and scaling technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. |
