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- Group members: Lucas, Sara, Sarah, Olivia, Anna, Abby, Sean, Cale, Josie,
2. Intro
- Plastic pollution affects not only wildlife and our surroundings, but it affects us
too. Plastic pollutants that make it into water affect our water supply and drinking
water, is swallowed by sea creatures which makes its way into the seafood we eat.
This is the same for other wildlife we hunt such as deer, elk and other animals.
Not only does it affect our water and wildlife, it affects our soil. Plastic takes 450
years at least to decompose as well as damaging and contaminating the soil. Not
only does this problem affect our current generation, but it affects all future
3. Stakeholders:
franchises), are stakeholders. Using plastic alternatives might affect their business
- Large corporate chains might see a dramatic difference in the costs of their
supplies. Since many chains run on their brand rather than their products, they
would probably be very interested in maintaining the shape and feel of their
products. Starbucks, for instance, might be an example of this type of business.
Large chains would also want to make sure that it’s possible to put their logos on
products made from plastic alternatives. On the other hand, many companies
business. A switch to plastic alternatives could get a lot of publicity and generate
5. Impact/outcome
hopefully setting a trend which will decrease plastic use in our community. If we
create a strong impact locally, it could create a domino effect and impact other
communities besides our own and even large-scale companies. In the long term,
others.
- Our project mostly affects our top three stakeholders, which are plastic/plastic
- Evaluation
get this goal into motion (ex. A petition, legislative action, movement in
the community, etc.) to reduce the use of plastics in our community and
impact and the effects we had on the community. It will also hopefully