Persuasive speech

Over the past few weeks Ahipara school has been writing speeches for our speech competition. Heres my speech what do you think?

       Should it be illegal to produce throw-away plastic products?

Plastic the lightweight transparent material that's used for a wide variety of products like cutlery packaging the list goes on and on. But with all these convenient uses for plastic, it can't break down and easily and fills up the environment and our landfills. So because of this should we ban all throw-away plastic products?
Plastic kills marine and wildlife. Every year 100 million marine mammals die because of plastic pollution and where does all this plastic come from? The companies that produce it if we stopped making plastic, less marine mammals will die and it wont have such a big impact on our planet.
Not biodegradable
If we try to dispose of plastic bags by “throwing away we fail miserably. There is no way for plastic bags to biodegrade. Plastic does not degrade, it “photo-degrades. Meaning it simply breaks into smaller pieces. To degrade, a living organism we must eat it. At this time, a living organism that eats plastic hasn’t been found.
According to Charles Moore, the length of time for plastic to degrade can be hundreds of years or longer. have found no scientific evidence to dispute this. Thus, Plastic, like diamonds, can last forever.” Because of this, some say that every piece of plastic ever made is still on the earth.
Plastic bags are a problem. We can’t throw them away and we won’t recycle them. If you think plastic bags are not a problem, then why does the government track their usage and track their recycling rates.
plastic is highly toxic
there are toxins in all plastics which can leak in to our bodies mostly from plastic packaging.
And since we haven't stopped There is so much plastic trash in the oceans that now fish have started to eat the plastic. we in turn eat the fish!
Plastic is used only once and is not at all sustainable
After we use plastic it gets thrown in the trash. If you are lucky it will end up in a landfill where it will sit for hundreds of years decomposing slowly. Leaking toxins and emitting carbon and methane. If you are not so lucky it may end up in the ocean along with the 100’s of millions of tonnes of other plastic garbage. This plastic either gets washed up on shore or breaks down in the oceans. This is then eaten by the wildlife who are getting sick or dying in vast numbers. Less than 15% of all plastic
packaging is actually recycled.

How bad is the plastic problem
Well not Earth-shattering, but definitely Earth-trashing. One day, the layer of plastic spread around the world from the 1950s onwards will form a noticeable line in the sedimentary rocks of the future.
And that is one reason – along with radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, pollution, climate change effects such as higher sea levels. and the extinction of many animal species.
In a few decades, a blink of an eye in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, plastic has not only changed the fabric of life but the very rocks.
In the end plastic is toxic and bad for the environment and mammals and is hurting our planet but the core problem is the greedy government that only cares about themselves their economy and their revenues that are letting more greedy companies produce.