A Plastic Boat: Fishing for Trash
In A Plastic Boat: Fishing for Trash, presenter and motorbike racer Grace Webb looks at a boat constructed using 8,000 recycled plastic bottles. The electric boat is used to collect waste plastics from rivers. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Grace’s Amazing Machines, a children’s show that introduces kids to some of the biggest, fastest, and most amazing machines in the world.
Lesson Express
Q: It took 8,000 recycled bottles to make the boat Grace rode in. Where would those bottles normally have gone if they weren’t recycled?
A: The bottles would have gone into the trash and taken years to disintegrate.
Q: What is the part of the boat that spins around in the water?
A: The part of the boat that spins is the propeller. It propels the boat forward!
Q: How does the plastic boat help the environment in three different ways?
A: The boat is made of recycled plastic, it’s electric-powered, and it’s used to collect litter out of the water.
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