Q After watching the 4-minute video, answer the following questions. Make sure to use your own words and check for proper spelling and grammar. Use as much space as you like. All questions are worth two points each except for questions 2, 4, and 8, which are worth one point each. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xlNyWPpB8 Questions: 1. Explain all the steps of how plastic bottles are manufactured. Plastic is manufactured through process of molding. Then it is heated and placed which can be mold, shaped and thinning into tube. This is called injection molding. 2. Explain what happens to Bottle 1. Bottle 1 end up in land fill 3. Explain what leachate is and why we should be concerned about it. When the plastic bottle flows in water, they absorb the water soluble compound and thus make a harmful stew which is collectively called as leachate. It is very harmful as it piles up in the ocean where all the trash collected. It first disturb the ocean ecosystem. it effects the water living bodies. 4. How many years does it take for Bottle 1 to decompose? 1000 years 5. What is the Great Garbage Patch and explain how Bottle 2 ends up there. Bottles moved into water stream, draw into a massive vortex where the trash accumulates and called as Great Garbage Patch. 6. How is Bottle 2 connected to the death of marine animals and birds? Great Garbage patch is one of the garbage in the world where garbage gets trapped. This start polluting the water current move around it in which many animals like seabirds get entangles in the mess. Animals get attracted towards the bunch of plastic. Some animals eat the attractive plastic and thus get fill their stomach. In this way the toxins get passed into the food chain 7. Explain how humans can get plastic in their diet. We are eating the seafood. The sea animals eat the small sea animals which are already full with plastic. 8. Bottle 2 may break apart to become smaller and smaller pieces called___micro plastics________. So how long does it really take for plastics to decompose? It takes approximately 1000 years to decompose the plastic. 9. Describe the different journey of Bottle 3. Provide at least 3 examples of its ultimate fate. Bottle has little different journey. It is compressed through machines. It turns into small pieces which is thrashed and broken down. This is then crushes, heated, melted and molded into different shapes. So they regain the shape again.