Melanie Cheesman
Jamie Larkin
ENG 1003
31 October 2018
How bad is the pollution?
Humans have caused a huge increase in pollution in the ocean. According to the passage, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic goes into the ocean every minute. We have caused 14 million tons of plastic pollution into the seas. The waves and the ultraviolet light have broken the trash, making the trash invisible from the people just looking over the side of a boat. The passage says that 99.9% of the trash is plastic, and it could have been recycled instead of just thrown into the ocean or other waterways that lead into the sea. The plastic in the ocean causes trouble for the animal life that live in here. All of the pollution could potentially kill the animals that live here and end a species. The World Economic Forum says that there would be more plastic, by weight, in the ocean than fish by 2050. That is crazy, especially when it is easy to recycle the plastic. Littering also helps cause this problem with people just throwing trash on the beach instead of throwing it in a safer place. This needs to be changed because if the fish species gets wiped out, there will be a decline in the process of fishing to sell as food. The water could also get too polluted to even get in when visiting the beach. The sad thing is that the scientists do not know how long it will take for the amount of plastic being thrown in the water everyday will subside.
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