Save The Oceans
Plastic pollution is one of the world’s biggest problems. According to Seastewards.org, “An estimated 14 billion pounds of trash has been dumped into the ocean. Around 12 billion pounds of that is plastic. An equivalent of 1 garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean every minute. Every minute! If we keep dumping trash into the ocean, bad things will keep happening. Let’s see why this needs to stop.
Over the years people have thought that, maybe it is a bad idea to be dumping all of our waste into the most precious environment on our planet. People have tried to stop this, but the whole world has to agree to reuse and recycle instead of throwing all of our plastic into the dumpster. Most plastic is recyclable and still only around 2% of all the plastic in the world gets recycled. Here’s a cool fact about plastic straws. Did you know that every day we use enough straws to wrap around the world 2.5 times? The world has been looking at ways that you don’t need to use straws, and Starbucks has actually tried to go zero straws with their new cup lid. Some people still use straws though. It is hard enough for companies to stop using straws, but it is another task for the people to let go of these single use items.
Picture a sea turtle that is in the ocean and is looking for food, and you see a jellyfish and think, ooh, there’s lunch. But when you swallow that jelly fish it has no taste. You just ate a plastic bag. That plastic bag can get caught in that turtle's digestive system and can kill the turtle. According to the ASEAN post,”over 100 million marine animals die every year due to plastic waste.” It is actually possible that we can get that plastic into our bodies. For example, let’s say a fish eats some small pieces of plastic. Then we eat that fish. The plastic in that fish has a small chance of getting into our bodies. I don’t think that you want plastic inside your body. If we stop this from happening the ocean can be saved and these marine animals won’t have to suffer from our doing.
Today organizations like 4Ocean have been determined to stop the pollution of our oceans. 4Ocean is an organization that picks up the trash from coastlines around the world. They have picked up over 12 million pounds of trash. This organization has a bracelet that they sell. These bracelets are made of the plastic and trash that they have picked up from the ocean. A lot of efforts are being made to stop this global problem. If this doesn’t stop then the oceans that we love, will get swallowed by the massive amounts of trash being dumped into the waters.
This is one of the biggest problems in the world right now. You now know why it needs to stop and the world knows that it needs to stop. Try not to use single use items like plastic straws. Make the world a better place. Stop polluting the oceans.
I really liked reading this, I also have a question how many straws would it take for one time around the world. I'm also trying to use less straws or even not use them at all.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliment and single use items like straws are the main things that are filling up these landfills. Because you only use them once before you throw them away.
DeleteI liked how you wrote this and the pictures you included. I have bought a brcelet from 4Ocean! What animal is being harmed the most from plastic?
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