Ocean Pollution Affecting Marine Animals

The ocean is a major part of our lives because not only does it supply us with water and most of our everyday needs,but because the ocean “covers 71% of the earth’s surface” (source: Oceanic Institute).The ocean is very important to earth and those living in it because without the ocean most things will be different. According to “Keep Oceans Blue” one of the examples they stated were “Our oceans also provide $21 trillion in food and other benefits yearly” meaning without the ocean earth would be a wasteland or maybe even non-existent. So now you know why the ocean is important let me tell you more information regarding this topic.

How does ocean pollution affect marine animals and why is important? Well to start off ocean pollution is very dangerous to the marine animals that live in the ocean because they can get stuck in the litter that gets thrown into the drains or places where the trash can go into the ocean or get stuck in trash for example a plastic bag could get wrapped around their head and they can’t get it off. Marine animals aren’t like humans as in they can’t take off the litter off of themselves. It's very important to keep the marine animals safe because they are very important to the ocean in which produces life to us in many different ways according to “Keep Ocean Blue”. …show more content…
Well it's not possible to completely get rid of ocean pollution because there's too much to clean up, but there is many different ways to decrease the amount of trash like making sure the street drains aren’t filled with trash, also cleaning the beach, and etc. It is important that we do this because ocean pollution affects everybody is many different ways like I mentioned