With so many ____ that make ____ toothbrushes, pens, cans, bottles and ____, garbage is a very big problem in our world today. You may think that ____ is everywhere. Well, you’re right. It is everywhere! A good example of this is the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was first discovered by scientists in the 1980s. It is an area of ____ garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is about the same size as Texas. There are many kinds of garbage in the Garbage Patch, but ____ bottles and bags, and other things made of plastic cause the biggest problem. ‘What’s the problem?’ you may ask. First, plastic bottles and bags may take hundreds or maybe even thousands of ____ to break down. Second, plastic is made from ____. As the plastics ____ over time, chemicals enter the water – and enter the fish that live in the water. These chemicals can make the fish ____, and they can also make the people who ____ the fish sick. So … what can we do? There are many things we can do! We can ____ our oceans, we can stop making so many things from plastic, and we can ____ more. The important thing is to do something!

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