Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

DANGER IN OUR OCEANS

From the toothbrush in your bathroom to the water bottle you take on your hike, plastic is all around us. While plastic makes our lives easier and safer, the chemical make-up of plastic causes dangers to our oceans’ ecosystem.

WHAT IS PLASTIC?

Plastic is a polymer, which are long chains of repeating molecules. The repeating molecules are called monomers. Monomers link together by forming extremely strong carbon to carbon bonds. These bonds are not found in nature. How did humans

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