**Congratulations Seniors! Enjoy your accomplishment and continue a life of learning and caring for our planet!!**
AGENDA:
- Finish Mystery Planet Activity
- Begin Mystery Planet write up
HOMEWORK:
- Mystery Planet write up
- Study for Friday's test
- Organize your notebook!!
HELP REDUCE PLASTIC POLLUTION IN CALIFORNIA (link at bottom)
- Remember when we studied the Giant Pacific Garbage Patch and also discussed how plastic pollutes the environment? It turns out that right now you have the opportunity to do something about it. Here is a statement from the "
Story of Stuff Project":
"The California legislature is voting on Friday to ban the pieces of
pollutants from ever entering the waste stream, but the corporations
that profit off of these ocean-choking microbeads are fighting back for their
"freedom" to pollute. Don't let your legislator get bought
off by corporate lobbyists. Let them know today that you want a vote for clean
oceans.
Microbeads are being dumped into our oceans in huge quantities: Neutrogena’s
“Deep Clean” facial cleanser contains over 350,000 microbeads in each tube.
The beads are designed to wash down the drain where they slip past sewer
filtration systems. Once dumped into our waterways, they chemically
attract and absorb toxins, get gobbled up by fish, and work their way up the
food chain, leaching toxins as they go. Many microbeads are so tiny
that they’re starting to be found in the bloodstreams of the creatures that eat
them -- or eat animals that have eaten them -- where they will remain for the
rest of their host’s life.
Companies that package and pack their products full of pollutants try to
blame us for the problem. They say that any time their trash ends up in the
ocean, it's our responsibility, part of a long line of using "personal
responsibility" to shift all the blame to the consumer. But a clean future
is our collective responsibility, and we have to fight for it on every level. The
beauty product industry is swarming the California Assembly on Thursday.
We need to let our representatives know that their constituents want them to
vote for clean oceans."
CLICK HERE TO ENTER YOUR ADDRESS, FIND YOUR ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND TELL THEM YOU WANT TO BAN MICROBEADS!
