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Ew, so true! Why should our ocean life swim through the awful things we throw into our ocean! As Captain Charles Moore said, “Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.” Could you imagine swimming in tiny bits of plastic, cigarette butts, dirty plastic bottles, oil, solid waste or even sewage! Some tend to think that ocean pollution involves tires and refrigerators that we can easy remove from the water but it’s so much more than that. Little particles of plastic are breaking apart and floating in our oceans. There is already way too much plastic to try and “scoop” out, the best thing for society to do is to stop it at the source! It seriously scares me to know that in the U.S over 2 million plastic bottles are us every 5 minutes. And yet one 10% of those are actually recycled. Our ocean life is directly affected by these things and decreases their chances of survival.
We have a floating garbage patch twice the size of Texas! Holy Sh*t! Do you know the population of Texas?? It’s 25, 674, 681. That equals out to a population of 51,349,362!! How is it that society has created so much waste in our oceans. Could you imagine swimming in this filth? Look at the picture of the polluted water in this tub, you wouldn’t even think twice about stepping into that tub.
We are poisoning our ocean! We need to STOP together!
kme
