The essay "Our Plastic Oceans" is a real eye opener. I've seen videos and other papers over this topic. It's like it strikes something in me, and it's not good. The essay talks about the amount of trash that is found in the ocean. It goes on about how it's killing animals daily and everything is suffering from this. It's not just the animals there is even a chance it could be hurting humans as well.
Throughout the essay I found myself getting upset. I found that the paragraph called "How bad is the pollution" really got to me. There are 14 tons of plastic pollution. That's just insane and totally unacceptable. However, I realized that it's partially my fault. In the "Where's it coming from?" paragraph it states how even though you throw it away it doesn't mean it is actually taken care of. So that means even my plastic bottles are going toward this pollution. Which is not something I want to be responsible for, if anything I would want to be a solution to the problem.
The essay leaves you with a little hope and sort of a feeling of go out there to help. It says how it may seem impossible it can be reduced and that's better than nothing. It's necessary to save the lives of marine animals and possibly ours. It mentions how people gather on one day to do a cleanup. During this time they clean up to 20 million pounds of trash. My thought is why is it only one day and why am I not more accountable for the problem. It was a real eye opener and hopefully I can make smarter decisions that will make a change even if it's small.
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