What is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
It is ironic that "not all garbage ends up at the dump. As a matter of fact,
"Earth’s largest landfill isn’t on land at all."
"This marine debris has sloshed into the public spotlight recently, thanks to growing media coverage as well as scientists and explorers who are increasingly visiting the North Pacific to see plastic pollution in action. "According to a website. Indeed, more and more ocean pollution has bee exposed and people are so sad to see except person who caused this issue. Particularly, a
huge garbage patch floating in the Pacific Ocean! Plastic bags, bottles, and other litters consist of the massive trash “island” growing in the vast North Pacific between
San Francisco and Hawaii. The area of the “island” is as big as two Texas. That is to say, the area is more than 700,000 square kilometers. How huge it is!
I can’t believe how this could happen. In my impression, ocean is nothing related to trash. It's charming and clean where is one of the best places for summer vocation. Well, after reading some articles about ocean pollution, I've changed my mind. In scientists’ opinion,
people discarded useless plastic into the ocean through sewers carelessly so
that plastic is constantly moving together with the help of currents and
eventually become the trash “island”.
According to the environmental organization protecting ocean, birds
and marine animals are facing a serious threat because of the garbage patch. Turtles
mistake plastic bags as jellyfish. Birds swallow the plastic debris which they
can’t digest. All of these animals died as a result of plastic. The organization
called “Green Peace” reported that they found at least 267 kinds of marine
animals suffering by mistaking plastic litter and debris.
In order to clean up the garbage patch, it will cost over a billion. However, none of countries is willing to take the responsibility. Therefore, every single person should take action to protect our charming ocean. I extremely wouldn't like to see that generation after generation won't have the beautiful place to spend their summers and will never have the fantastic memory of ocean after 60 years because of pollution. Would you like to see that happen?
McLendon, Russel. "MNN - Mother Nature Network." MNN. Mother Nature Network, 24 Feb. 2013. Web. 30 July 2013.
What is the Great Pacific Ocean. Introduce the patch and the situation of ocean pollution.
I only heard about this swirling garbage patch recently in my speech class. This thing is massive and all the currents circle around it and just keep grouping together more junk everyday. If you look on Google you can find pictures of dead sea birds that have been cut open and they just spew out trash from their gut. It's just so sad to see.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, it's sad to see. what's worse,another patch is growing in the Atlantic.
DeleteI enjoyed reading your information and also your personal views of this issue. I liked that you started off with a question, answered it, gave more detail, gave your personal feelings, and also found the cost of the solution to the issue. I like your writing, yet there are some incorrect spelled words and I was confused in the beginning with where your quotation marks were placed.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Can you tell me the incorrect spelled words you found? I know i don't use the quotation marks well and i'll try to make it clear.
DeleteGreat post. I think this is a major issue. I watched this video about bottled water a while back called Taped. In it they talk about the trash island and how plastic bottles are causing major problems for aquatic life. In one instance they found a fish or a bird with its stomach filled 2/3 of the way with bits of plastic. I think this is another sign that our behaviors as humans needs to change. Looking forward to more!
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