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Plastics: Good or Evil? - Jenna and Johann
Did you know that more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic are
floating around our oceans? Around the world, plastic is used
in many different ways, some bad,
some good. Plastic can be used to
save peoples lives. But it can also be
used to harm many things such as
marine life. Why can’t we take 5
minutes to clean up after ourselves
and recycle? Or simply avoid using
plastic?
Turtles are very important to our
survival and without them our
oceans will suffer. Turtles are
endangered for many horrifying
reasons but the main reason is
PLASTIC. For instance, ingestion of plastic is one of the
critical reasons that make marine animals starve, choke and
die… When marine animals ingest the plastic the plastic
doesn’t degrade making the animal feel full. When this
happens the animal will not eat which leads to starvation and
death.
Don’t you wonder where all this plastic we dispose of in the
trash goes? Well, it goes into landfills and then straight to the
ocean. Once it reaches the ocean it stays there forever until
an animal eats it or gets entangled in it. Then, it can lead to
death or starvation, injuries and harm to the animal. So do
you really want to kill animals with our trash?
Plastic is an integral part of our
lives.Plastic is so cheap and easy to
make that we use it all the time.
Unfortunately, it’s not even recycled in
a proper manner. About 91% of plastic
is thrown away. So where does all that
plastic go? Every year, over 17 trillion
pounds (7.72 trillion kilograms) of
plastic are washed into the
oceans.There are five huge areas in
This image was taken from Doha News
the world’s oceans that are a “soup” of
floating trash. One of these areas, the
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is three times as large as
France.Plastic pollution has particularly harmed marine life
and their ecosystem .These magnificent creatures are among
the oldest species on the planet Earth.You may be shocked to
know that themain reason that the sea turtles are
endangered species is because of plastic pollution.People are
dumping plastic everywhere and it is reaching the oceans.Sea
turtles and other marine animals are mistaking plastic as food
and are consuming it.The plastic damages their internal
organs which leads to starvation,eventually death. Do we say
goodbye to plastic or sea turtles?