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Newsletter 2018 (1)

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Pollution<br />

Pollution has been and continues to be a global man-made problem affecting all; the environments, humans and<br />

organisms are all at risk. Trinidad and Tobago is among the most polluted small island states in the world. We<br />

dump more than 50 million plastic bottles in our natural environment and 1 million glass bottles every month.<br />

Effects of Pollution:<br />

Sickness, destruction of habitat, ocean acidification, loss of income/ livelihood, global warming, flooding,<br />

depletion of oxygen, contamination of food chain, increase of pests and disease.<br />

Plastic often looks<br />

like tasty morsels<br />

of food. Plastic<br />

bits found in a<br />

fish’s gut.<br />

Plastics found in a dead bird’s<br />

stomach

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