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