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Wednesday 4 September 2019

Exploring our national current events



News editors make decisions every day about which current event stories they will run. We explored the different types of current events that are happening in NZ, thought about why the story made the news and plotted the location on a google

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws

Did you know that all plastic straws are harming sea animals? Well, in my opinion we should ban all plastic straws because they cause pollution and all this from plastic straws, Do we want to hurt these harmless animals?

One reason I think plastic straws should be banned is that they might damage sea animal's digestive system. 500 million plastic straws get thrown away helplessly and kill turtles and other sea life. Because of this, it kills over 100,000 marine life creatures in the sea just because of plastic straws.

My second reason for banning plastic straws is because it has chemicals in it and those chemicals are most likely to harm sea animals (marine life). Plastic straws also break down into microplastic (Small plastics) is also found on land and seagulls eat any kind of garbage and microplastic is one of them, if they eat it they are most likely to pass from there digestive system blockage or eating too much microplastic. All of this is letting us down and those poor little sea creatures eating your rubbish are dying so please don’t throw your rubbish away, This is horrible, this is unbelievable, This is OUTRAGEOUS you don't want that to happen right?

Well, plastic straws could be useful for a good drink without spilling it on you, it would be great if you would be able to water ski but it wouldn’t be ok if you water ski on dead fish. You would be dying to water ski or do anything in water but you can’t because you'll see floating fish EVERYWHERE

Animals are dying, I do not want that to happen and also people are way too lazy to think about life instead they just make things difficult and don’t pick up their plastic straws