Plastic Bags

Plastic Bags

A surprising fact:

Australia uses around four billion plastc check-out

Bags a years.

And that’s only Australia-globally hundreds of

Billions are used!

We’ve all seen them ; clinging to trees,drifting along

Footpaths and swirling around oceans.

Danger to life

Produced plastic well during the process harmful

greenhous gases are emitted.

Environmentalists reckon thousands of birds and

Marine animals die each year because they swallow

The plastic or get caught up it.

In 2000,this whale died on a beach in Queensland-

6 metres of plastic was found in its tummy.

Polyethylene,or plastic , takes hundreds of years to

be destroyed so once plastic bags are made,they hang

around for a very long time.

Human to protect themselves

We haven’t always used them-back in the 60s it was

Paper bags and boxes.

And since people have realised how much of menace the

plastic ones can be reusable and biodegradable bags have

been introdced.

The Government make about laws

The Government will hold another meeting in six months.

By then we will have used another two billion

Plastic bags

"The students have two weeks for holidays,

I hope they won't for get ,they have leant

the English ."

< My City >

Shanghai is booming Chinese City located at the mouth of the Yangze River.It is the sixth biggest cit in the world .

Approximotely 13.5 million peole live in Shanghai.

Shanghai in near the East Sea of China, so thesre weather is warm and humid.

The main industry is finnacial,commerce and litht industry.

The River “Huang Bu River” flows through Shanghai, It separates the two halves of Shanghai, East Shanghai and West Shanghai.

Many shipyards are on the east bank of the river.

Shanghai more hundred years ago was a fihery’s hamlet,today it is a famous city .

The 2010 world EXPO in Shanghai has mony attractions for visitors.

About Sir Douglas Mawson

About Sir Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson was born in 5^th May 1882 in Shipley, West Yorkshire

He died 14^th October 1958 at the age 76.

He was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist.

He lead a crew of 16 men and a pack of huskies

After a few weeks in South Antarctica they didn’t have any more food supplies left and started to eat the huskies.After a few days, many of the crew suffered from frostbite.

Many had died but the most survived. But luck wasn’t coming their way, little did they know that the husky liver they ate contained large amounts of Vitamin A, which is contagious to humans.

Using their remaning strength, a miracle occurred, Mawson and the remaining six men of his crew had survuived and made it back to Cape Denison.

In 1916 the American Geographical Society awarded Mawson the David Livingstone Centenary Medal.