Plastic Pollution Introduction The world population is living‚ working‚ vacationing‚ increasingly conglomerating along the coasts‚ and standing on the front row of the greatest‚ most unprecedented‚ plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form‚ the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the the world’s oceans‚ yet mostly originating from where we stand: the
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GOVERNOR WHO REACHED OUT TO THE COMMON PEOPLE History 321 _03 Being that I was born at Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital in Baton Rouge‚ this article by Morgan Peoples quickly captured my attention. The article “Earl Kemp Long: The Man from Pea Patch Farm”‚ was perfect for the lingering curiosity I have had for the man whom the hospital in which I took my first breath was named after. Being that Earl K. Long hospital was a Charity Hospital‚ I always assumed that there had a to be a good reason
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Marine debris‚ commonly known as marine litter‚ is man-made waste that is deliberately or accidently released into oceans‚ lakes‚ seas or any other type of waterway. 6.4 million Tonnes of garbage are found in the world’s oceans every year and it just keeps increasing. 90% of this garbage is found to be plastic. Marine debris comes in many different forms. One form is ghost nets‚ these are fishing nets that fish and other creatures get caught in. The ghost nets restrict movement which means that
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Americans fail to realize that bodies of water connect to larger bodies of water which eventually leads to that onee fun special vacation spot. A trash vortex is a big lanfill of garbage and plastic that ends up in the water. It is also known as a garbage patch. Sometimes the vortex is hard to see because the materials sink down to the bottom of the ocean floor. There has been much more garbage placed in the ocean than most people realize. Until you actually research this understanding how much trash ends
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gone” applies to this scenario perfectly. People throw their trash‚ cigarette butts‚ and even banana peels where ever is convenient for them without realizing the damage they are causing to nature. Another huge effect is the great pacific garbage patch. This includes an island made up of plastic and chemical sludge that just sits and collects more trash. Because of this‚ there is literally no marine life
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According to Recycling Facts‚ “Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as one million sea creatures a year.” There is even a “landfill” called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that is twice the size of Texas and floats between California and Hawaii. This garbage patch is composed of eighty percent plastic and weighs around 3.5 million tons. The documentary‚ Bag It‚ also explores how plastic impacts marine life. Since it never degrades completely‚ it has the capacity
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generation after generation after generation? In the U.S. we go through: -274 million plastic bags per day …or… 100 billion annually -45 million water bottles per day …or… 16.5 billion annually Formation of the Gyres The Great Pacific Garbage Patch A giant‚ eternal swirling spiral of floating trash - “2-4X the size of Texas” (the whole Pacific Ocean) - 90% plastic - 80% land-based (NOAA) Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX) - 2009 Captain Charlie Moore of the
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the different types of plastic are very difficult • In many countries across the globe plastics are burned and incinerated most often to remove the precious metals which can be recycled easier as with computer motherboards • The pacific garbage patch is one of only many in the five oceans across the globe • To reduce the growth of this pollution across the globe‚ we should move to more recyclable containers such as glass and metals • The plastic containers we use also leach toxic chemicals such
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14-16. This article talks about the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that’s in the North Pacific Ocean. It also explains how 80% of the debris is plastic that floats for hundreds of miles until it’s caught up in a gyre. I would use this article to show how plastic ends up there and is broken down by sunlight and salt and ingested by fish and birds. Blomberg‚ Lindsey. By the Numbers‚ The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. NOAA Marine Debris Program. HYPERLINK “http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/faqs
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Précis Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash is a non-fictional work written by Edward Humes‚ in which he demonstrates the effects of waste which human’s have relentlessly produced over the previous decades. In chapter 6‚ Nerds vs. Nurdles‚ Humes exhibits the damage that half a century of careless consumption has had on the environment and ecosystems. Our society today has been blind to its surroundings as a product of consumer apathy and does not realize the detrimental effects of our wasting
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