Our Plastic Oceans-- Ashlynn

I never knew how messy humans were when it came to throwing out trash.

Most people just liter everyday and don’t think about the consequences.

Last week I helped the science club pick up trash off of the highway close to the school.

I picked up a bunch of plastic and soda cans.

After helping pick up the highway, it made me realize that it is not helping the world by us littering.

The most interesting passage to me is, “Is it affecting the marine life?”.

This is interesting to me because I didn’t know that 663 species are being affected by the plastic

pollution in the ocean. It is sad to think that it may take a long time to get most of the trash out of the ocean,

so the marine life has to deal with it. The writer says in the passage “Are human at risk?” that ,

“A study last year found 83   percent of the world's drinking water is contaminated, while this year,

researchers found 93 percent of bottled water contains some plastic, often double the amount

found in tap water. “ That honestly makes me not want to drink water anymore, haha.

I’m sure most of us have already drank plastic and

we don’t even know it.