Pollution is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment and is usually created by human activity. Each year, more and more pollution is being created and more and more is going into the ocean, affecting the wildlife. Studies estimate that there are now 51 trillion pieces of plastic in the worlds’ oceans and not one square mile of surface ocean anywhere is free of plastic pollution.
Right now, animals are struggling to live in a clean environment due to the amount of pollution in the ocean. Due to the number of plastics in the ocean, the most common way for oceanic animals to die is suffocation, starvation, and drowning. A lot of animals are ingesting the pollution in our oceans which is why these deaths are so common. Plastic straws are being caught in turtles’ noses, fish are suffocating in plastic bags, seagulls are getting caught in plastic pop rings, and whales are eating our plastic pollution.
According to EPA, every single bit of plastic to be produced, still exsists today in our world because of how quick humans are to consumption. Pollution has such a big toll on wildlife that over 24,000 tons of plastic is being injested by fish in the North Pacific alone, which not only affects the animals in our ocean, but also us humans who rely on fish to eat in our foodchain. A lot of animals including seaturtles mistake plastic for food because of it's smell which causes them to either choke, or starve thinking they are eating food, but it's plastic. Hundreds of thousands of seabirds injest plastic every year. That means that of all of the seabirds in our world today, 60% of them have all eaten plastic and by 2050, 99% of all seabirds will have eaten plastic at some point in time.
Sources:
https://sentientmedia.org/ocean-pollution/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/
Questions:
Does your family use plastic straws, plates, bowls, ect? If you do use any of the following, will you continue to use them after reading this?
Would you be willing to donate your own money to a charity to help these animals?
Why do you think there is so much pollution in our oceans?
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I think that there is so much Pollution in our oceans is because people don't care and just throw it somewhere and it eventullay makes it to the ocean. I think people should care more abou the animals more then there selfs.
I 100% agree! So many people would rather keep things the way they are rather then sacrifice very little for a lot of change.
My family does use plastic things but not very often, I will continue to use plastic as it would be hard to stop using plastic even if we tried. I would be willing to donate some money to charities. I think there is so much pollution in our oceans because people dump trash in the oceans but also I think it happens accidentally as well from other natural sources like wind and rivers.
I agree. It's very hard to stop using plastic as I use it as well very often.
MY family really use a lot of plastic things only if we just go out ot eat then thats when we will use that stuff. Also with all of the pollution thats in our oceans its becuause a lot of other people dont wnat to throw their stuff away after their done
I agree! People should be more organized and stay cleaner.
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