henderson island trash survey · 2020. 3. 13. · 24 plastic lollipop sticks 16 plastic glow sticks...
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Ocean Plastics 7-11 X-CurricEncounter Edu and Common Seas
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Henderson Island trash survey
STUDENT SHEET 4a
Henderson Island lies halfway between New Zealand and Chile in the South Pacific. No one lives there, yet in 2017 researchers collected nearly 55,000 pieces of trash from the beach to analyse their composition and origin. Plastic fragments were found to have come from Russia, the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and China.
The table below details the frequency of each item collected on Henderson Island. Choose ten items and create a bar chart which represents the data.
2 pieces of plastic cutlery
486 plastic bottle tops and lids
3,336 plastic fishing cords / ropes
16 pieces of polystyrene
10 plastic drinking straws
43 pieces of melted plastic
220 plastic fishing line
48,121 plastic fragments
3 plastic tiling spacers
24 plastic lollipop sticks
16 plastic glow sticks
642 plastic strapping
2 plastic tooth brushes 60 plastic bags 50 plastic buoys 207 plastic netting
6,774 plastic pellets 27 plastic pipes 25 plastic buckets 121 plastic fencing
115 plastic bottles 5 pieces of metal 4 shoes 245 plastic crates
10 plastic pen caps 3 plastic lighters 4 plastic razors 4 foam buoys
16 aluminium buoys 10 lightbulbs 8 glass bottles 67 glass fragments
Henderson Island
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STUDENT SHEET 4a
How do you think items such as fishing line and netting end up on the island?
How might items such as toothbrushes and plastic cutlery end up here?
Which items do you think are easiest to reduce?
How could this be achieved?
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Number of items collected on the island in 2017
Plastic Item