front 1 litter | back 1 small pieces of trash that have been left lying on the ground in public places |
front 2 biodegradable | back 2 ability of things to get disintegrated (decomposed) by the action of micro-organisms such as bacteria, while they are getting assimilated into the natural environment. There's no ecological harm during the process |
front 3 nonbiodegradable | back 3 a kind of substance which cannot be broken down by natural organisms and acts as a source of pollution |
front 4 G.P.G.P Great Pacific Garbage Patch | back 4 a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean |
front 5 plastic | back 5 a synthetic material that can be molded when soft and formed into a solid shape |
front 6 landfill | back 6 garbage placed in the ground, usually large amounts that become land feature itself; sometimes called "dumps" |
front 7 petroleum | back 7 oily, flammable liquid that comes from below the ground and is processed into gasoline, plastics, and other products |
front 8 gyre | back 8 giant circular ocean surface current |
front 9 toxins | back 9 poisonous substances |
front 10 PET | back 10 Polyethylene terephthalate , the plastic used in disposable drink bottles |
front 11 Marine debris | back 11 litter that ends up in the ocean, seas, and other large bodies of water. |
front 12 Ocean pollution | back 12 a complex mixture made up of mercury, plastic waste, manufactured chemicals, petroleum wastes, agricultural runoff, and biological threats, like harmful algal blooms |
front 13 decompose | back 13 the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts |