for Letters and Sounds Revised5 Catherine Baker Cleaning Up the Sea
Cleaning Up the Sea
Written by Catherine Baker
The plastic problem
The blue seas are full of plastic rubbish. 2
First, plastic gets into a river. Then the river sweeps the plastic out to the sea.
3
Sea currents push the plastic onto beaches. It can get wound around living things.
4
Plastic collects floating rubbish way out at sea.
in
dumps,
5
Each day, plastic in the sea gets pounded down into little bits.
6
Living things like sea birds eat the plastic, and it may poison them.
7
Cleaning Up the Sea
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How can help keep the
you
sea free of plastic?
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