Marine debris

I. Executive Summary Right now there is close to 5 million metric tons of Plastic waste in the ocean, and Toronto alone is responsible for using 100 million plastic bottles a year. Most of these bottles just end up in landfills even though there are many plastic recycling centers around the world, especially in Canada. Plastics R’ Us is an Idea for a company that allows plastic waste to be shredded to dust. This dust could be used to make products ranging from book covers to supplies for…

According to the Earth Institute, each year, one trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide.Plastic bags are harming the ocean. There should be a fee on plastic bags. Polluting is happening everywhere the reason this is happening because people are careless and sometimes bags slip away and the bags just fly away and go up in streets.The birds are also mistaken the plastic for food and giving it to their babies.Their should be a fee on plastic because the plastic is polluting the oceans and…

been cases of sea turtles mistaking a plastic bag for a jellyfish causing the result in the death of a marine animal’s life. Seals also ingest this harmful plastic. It causes intestinal injury and death ingesting about 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year. Seabirds will eat the bags which will fill up the stomach making less space for any other food to enter leading to starvation. Marine mammals like Hawaiian monk seals, who are an endangered species, get entangled in these death…

abundance of non-biodegradable debris. (Harse, G.A.,…

Each year, littering causes 1 million birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 4,600 sea turtles to die. Guess who makes that happen? People! Guess who can stop that, EVERYONE! Innocent animals are dying because of litter in the ocean or any body of water. What are we going to do about it. So many sea animals are dying because of littering. Most of it is happening off the Pacific Coast. The animals are eating the litter and getting stuck in it. Leatherback turtles have been around for 100 million…

Coco beach is a public beach with no entrance fee unlike other beaches in the Dar-es-salaam city in Tanzania. The beach is dirty and polluted which has lowered the attraction for visitors and residents. Hence it is necessary to estimate the recreational use value of Coco beach in order to maintain its environmental quality and avoid the irreversible damage. Non-market valuations have become increasingly important for placing monetary values for the environmental goods and services. The specified…

Why did the statue of liberty green? The statue of liberty in New York on June 19, 1885. The statue is green because the statue started as a copper statue and then over the years the copper started to tarnish and turn a light brown over the years eventually turning green. Why did the cape hateras statue move? They had to move the statue because it was a danger to the lighthouse because it was on the coast and the land it was built on its not stable because the lighthouse might be destroyed.…

There is an old legend about a monster living in the depths of Loch Ness. Some say that it is a dinosaur, others say it's a giant serpent, and others believe it is something else. However, I believe it is one big fat hoax. Many Loch Ness plants and animals are large, large enough to be confused for a monster. One example of something that could be confused as a monster is a sturgeon. Many Loch Ness sightings described Nessie to have bony plates on its back, which matches a sturgeons…

In a video taken by a marine biologist, who was recording gray seals, happened to find a flabbergasting discovery. Playing in the background of the video was a adult gray seal killing and eating a gray seal pup. The wound from this was also in the spiral-like shape. Director of the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, Andrew Brownlow decided to further examine this case, and sure enough he found nine other…

danger of becoming extinct across the whole world. Since their numbers are decreasing so rapidly, many efforts have been made to save them from disappearing completely. Some of these efforts are lead by different organizations such as the National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries. In the U.S., federal agencies lead these conservation efforts by creating recovery plans, developing habitat conservation…