What happens to material when it interacts with the environment? What happens once sunlight, wind and rain get a hold of a sandwich and its plastic wrapper?

This was the question that about 100 Mount Vernon 3rd and 4th graders explored in recent presentations. Understanding fundamentally how natural materials (AKA your leftover sandwich or applecore) dissolve or degrade in water. whereas the plastic wrapper will stay as it is……… thus creating a nightmare when it gets into the waterways.

Watching a video about animals ingesting plastics made them understand that this problem can only be solved by all of us.

We explored how every single person can make a difference, no one is too little to make a difference. These kids truly got it.