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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My family uses normal plates and normal things, but the resturant uses a lot of straws that we throw away. I would donate becuase it helps the earth and might be getting somthing bigger in return, plastic is non degradable. i think throwing trash away
In my house, my family doesn't really use any plastic straws, plates, or bowls unless we're having a big family gathering. I would be willing to donate my own money to a charity to help these animals. I think there is a lot of pollution in our oceans because everyone uses plastic, and a lot of it, and it usually gets put straight in the ocean.
In our house, we don't really use lots of plastic bowls or plates unless a lot of people are eating with us. I would maybe donate a little bit of money if I had any to give. I think there is a lot of polution because people use so much plastic and there arent many places to put it.
My family uses glass dishes and we hardly ever use plastic dishes. I would donate some charity to help animals because it is always nice to have animals in the environment. I probably think their is pollution in the oceans because of us humans having plastic and trash in our oceans.
My family does use plastic dishes sometimes not all of the time though. I would not be willing to donate money to a charity to help these animals. I think why there is so much pollution in the ocean is because the landfills are too full to use so people started to full up the ocean with trash.
My family uses glass and paper plates on different occasions we don't use plastic straws or bowls of any sort. Whenever I can I donate to any charity but I don't go looking to donate I donate when they promote it at like the grocery stores. There is so much pollution that people don't care about the animals enough.
My family does not use any plastic because we knew about the environment. I would donate some money because the animals need the ocean to not be as polluted. I think that there is a lot of pollution because of some people not caring about the animals.
My family uses paper plates and plastic straws. I will continue using these items because that is what my mom buys and I don't have a choice. I wouldn't donate my money to a charity that helps the animals. I think there is a lot of pollution because there is a lot of people in this world and their trash has to go somewhere.
My family doesn't used any plastic plates or utensils unless we go out to eat to some place that provides it. I wouldn't donate my money because there are other problems going on that could use the money more. I think that people have just stopped caring about where their trash goes and that's why it's so polluted.
I would donate my money to charity for these animals but it wouldnt be a first option as I think there are other more important charities in the world such as cancer charites and other charities that help support people in need and that have diseases.
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