This document discusses recycling and plastic pollution. It notes that plastic pollution has created a large garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean. Recycling is important for several reasons: it helps reduce pollution, conserve finite resources as populations and consumption grow, and lessen the environmental impacts of activities like deforestation and climate change. Plastics are a major pollution concern because they do not biodegrade and can persist in the environment for thousands of years. The document advocates reducing plastic use and promoting reuse and recycling to help address the plastic waste problem.

1. Recycling
By Arfel L. Tayona
Better Philippines Project

2. Pollution
• Pollution is any excess matter and energy in the
environment that harms the natural equilibrium of the
environment
Some Examples:
Plastic Pollution
Biomass Pollution
Gaseous Pollution
Heat Pollution

3. The Great Pacific
Garbage Patch
• There is a large patch of floating
Garbage and Plastic wastes in
the Pacific Ocean where plastic
pollution gathers in the Pacific
Gyre (huge circulating oceanic
waters)
• Most of the Plastic Pollution
comes from Countries
surrounding the Pacific Ocean
like, China, Japan, Indonesia,
the US and the Philippines

5. Why Recycle?
1. Scarcity of
Resources
2. Reduce
Pollution
3. Environmental
Impact

6. Scarcity/Finite Resources
• Renewable Resource
• Geological Cycles
• Water Cycle
• Carbon Cycle
• Nitrogen Cycle
• Non-renewable
Resources
• Metals
• Fossil Fuels

7. Non-renewable Resources
• Mining
• Metals
• Minerals
• Fossil Fuels

8. Deforestation
Some renewable resources are
considered non-renewable
because they are renewed very
slowly and are consumed really
fast

9. Environmental Impact
• Environmental Impact of
Human Activity
• Destruction of Native
Environments
• Extinction of Native Species
• Global Warming

10. Venus and the
Greenhouse
Effect
Venus is the hottest planet in
the Solar System

11. Global
Warming
The Poles
Sea Level Rise

12. Plastics
• What are Plastics?
• Plastic is a general term for a
class of materials that have
the property of “Plasticity”
• Plasticity – being flaccid and
malleable
• Plastics can be natural or
artificial

13. Plastics
• Natural Plastics
• Cellulose
• Cellulose are the major
material that composes the
cell wall of plants.
• Rubber
• Are composed of plastic
polymers from the resin of
Rubber plants

14. Plastic
• Artificial Plastics
• Artificially made Carbon
Polymers
• Polyurethane
• Styrofoam
• Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)

15. Two Types of Solid Wastes
Biodegradable Non-Biodegradable

16. Decomposers

17. Non-biodegradable Solid Wastes
• Plastic bags can exist in the
soil for thousands of years

18. Microplastic:
Microscopic
Pollution
Microscopic Plastic fragments
Plastic are nonbiodegradable
material (di nabubulok)
They only breakdown into
smaller parts but still remain
in the environment.

19. Microplastics in
the
Environment
Microplastics in the Ocean
Microplastics in the Soil
Microplastics in our food

20. Re-use; Reduce; Recycle
• Composts:
• Organic Fertilizers is a
booming gardening business
• Recycling PET Bottles
• Recycling plastic Bottles into
useful fuels thru Pyrolysis as
an alternative power source

21. Plastics
Are made from
hydrocarbon
(Organic Matter)
from fossil fuels

22. China
The Biggest Importer of Plastic
Waste from 1988 to 2016
China stopped the importation
of certain plastics due to
environmental concerns…

24. Malaysia
Currently the biggest Plastic
Waste importer

25. Thank You Guys…