Plastic Effect In Marine Life
By Kathy Coronado , 04/01/2016
Introduction to plastic in the ocean
The dangers of plastic and other waste is rising many dangers to the marine environment. In Research, it is shown that in water, plastic slowly break downs and takes years to actually break down. As it slowly breaks down, toxic additives gets released. Many creatures like fish and turtle mistake it as food and ingest it. This is really dangerous , in the future there will be more plastic than fish.
Water Bottles
Plastic Water bottles are the most common plastic waste found in the ocean. Americans throw away 35 billion plastic water bottles every year , not only that but 50 percent of that, we use once and throw it away
Marine Life
One million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed yearly from plastic in our oceans. 44 percent of all seabird species, all sea turtle species and a growing list of fish species have been documented with plastic in or around their bodies.
Recycling helps
Recycling plastic materials helps the environment a lot , this decreases the health problems in mammals and humans.
Work Cited
"22 Facts About Plastic Pollution (And 10 Things We Can Do About It)."EcoWatch. N.p., 07 Apr. 2014. Web. 01 Apr. 2016.
"Plastic Pollution | Bottles, Bags and Dirty Air." Moms Clean Air Force. N.p., 06 Sept. 2012. Web. 01 Apr. 2016.
"OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION:A Global Tragedy for Our Oceans and Sea Life." Ocean Plastics Pollution. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Apr. 2016.
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