The Cost of Plastic Waste

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  • Secondary
  • Year 9 - 10
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Oceans
  • Water
  • ...

Presentation Summary

When we think of the costs of plastic waste, most of us think about the environmental costs and the impacts on marine ecosystems and organisms. But plastic pollution also has a considerable financial cost, particularly in terms of the cleaning it up, impacts on tourism and impacts on fisheries and aquaculture.

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Curriculum links

  • The impacts of the production and consumption of goods on places throughout the world, and strategies to manage sustainability in these places (AC9HG9K08)
  • The human-induced changes that challenge the sustainability of places and environments (AC9HG10K01)

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