Microplastics Are Everywhere

Microplastics Are Everywhere Plastic makes our lives easy. We use plastic bottles for drinks and plastic bags for food. When we’re done with them, we throw them away! 塑膠製品像是塑膠瓶、塑膠袋讓我們的生活更便利。通常使用之後就把它扔掉。 Lots of plastic trash goes into the ocean. After some years, it breaks down into microplastics. Microplastics are very small. How small? They're smaller than 5 millimeters. 很多塑膠垃圾流入海裡。幾年後，就會被分解成塑膠微粒，微粒有多小呢? 小於5毫米。 Fish and other animals eat and drink microplastics. Sometimes microplastics are in our food and water. Microplastics can be everywhere! 塑膠微粒無所不在。魚類跟其他的海洋生物會把塑膠微粒吃下肚。還會出現在我們的食物跟水中。 Microplastics can be everywhere because we use too much plastic. This isn’t good. Some scientists think microplastics can make us sick! 我們用了太多塑膠製品，科學家擔心塑膠微粒會讓人生病! Microplastics are a big problem. But we can fix it together! How? We can use less plastic. We can use reusable water bottles and bags. We can recycle. We can put plastic trash into the bins for plastic! 塑膠微粒是個大問題，但是我們可以一起來解決。我們可以減少使用塑膠，改用環保杯跟環保袋，也可以做塑膠回收。 We can also stop plastic from going into the ocean. We can pick up trash on a beach. Then the plastic in the trash won’t become microplastics! 清理海灘上的垃圾，也會阻止塑膠流進大海，它們就不會變成塑膠微粒。 We can do these small things to make a big change. Let’s stop more microplastics from being in the ocean! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vocabulary 海洋中的塑膠會分解成微小粒子，跑進食物鏈裡面。 • done 完成 Are you done drinking? 你喝完了嗎? Yeah. You want some water, too? 對啊，你也要喝點水嗎? No, I just want your bottle. 不，我只要你的瓶子。 • recycle 回收 Hey, you threw it away! 你把它扔掉了! No, I’m just having it recycled. 沒有，我只是回收它。 By tossing it in the trash? 扔進垃圾裡回收? • trash 垃圾 That’s not a trash bin. 那不是垃圾桶。 It’s a bag for empty bottles. 是放空瓶子的袋子。 But I may get thirsty later on.可是我等一下也許會口渴。 • change 改變 You should bring your own water bottle.你應該自己帶水。 So you want to fix the Earth’s problems now? 所以你現在要解決地球的問題啦? Just to make a small change. 只是做一點小小改變。 這些單字很常用。 done完成 recycle回收 trash垃圾 change改變 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quiz • Where does lots of plastic trash go into? • The ocean • Space • Forests • How small are microplastics? • 5 milligrams • 5 milliliters • 5 millimeters • How can we help fix the microplastics problem? • Recycle plastic • Use plastic bags • Throw away plastic Answers: • a • c • a