The Sustainability Of Ocean Water

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With only 71 percent of the earths body of water, we have 96.5 percent of ocean resources to meet our current expectations of having a blissful experience along the coastlines. Although this may be true, lately we as consumers are destroying our oceans sustainable body of water, and the sea creature’s life expectancy. Henceforth in the county of Los Angeles specifically, the sustainability of ocean waters are being contaminated by the toxicity of waste being dumped by consumers. Under the circumstances, what can we do to stop toxic wastes being dumped in the sea?
Problem
Not a lot of consumers identify that toxic wastes incorporates supplemental wastage of dredged material, sewage waste, oil waste, and radioactive waste, undoubtedly each waste

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