Our Plastic Oceans - Lexi Hall

In paragraph two it talks about where all the plastic is coming from. It says in that paragraph since the 1950's, when products began being made with plastic, only twenty one percent has been recycled. That's crazy, after all these years we have only recycled twenty one percent of all plastics in the world! That shows that majority of people who drink out of coke bottles, water bottles, or eat out of plastic to go containers either throw them on the ground or in the trash. As citizens who want to help with this terrible problem, we need to be trying to stop this from happening. I have never realized how much plastic is thrown into the ocean instead of in recycling bins. In paragraph two it states that plastic is indestructible, we can barely decompose of it when it's recycled. How can we re-use it or dispose of it when it's in the ocean? Americans aren't the only ones held responsible for this. China is responsible for almost half of it. Imagine if we could cut each country contribution in half, we would hardly have any plastic going into the ocean. According to the article even when we wash our clothes the plastic fibers are going into the ocean. How can we stop our fibers from our clothes from adding to this problem? No one at this point knows or we would have a solution already. Hopefully, one day we can lessen the amount of plastic going into the ocean and make a safer environment for sea creatures.