Trouble in Trash
People have always used plastic as a number one way to carry most of the people objects or foods. worldwide annually use for grocery bags is about 1 trillion every year.In an article published by the journal science in 2015 conducted an experiment saying that 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in ocean every year. Obviously, that's a great amount of plastic ending up in the ocean and people already have discovered places in the ocean full of plastics just floating in the ocean. The same journal of science estimated by the year 2025 there would be 20 times the 8 million metric tons that's equivalent to 100 bags of plastic per feet in the ocean(Plastic Pollution). There are a variety of answers for how long it takes a plastic bag to biodegrade, but the thing is that it takes years for plastics to biodegrade. The people of earth are creating more bags every day, then the rate the plastic bags biodegrade. In the ocean about 90% of the trash is plastic, that's a lot of plastic just …show more content…
An example where trash has been going into ocean is in an article named New Plastic Garbage Patch Found in The South Pacific Could Be 1.5 Times Larger Than Texas. In this article, a person they call captain Charles Moore discovered a polluted patch of plastic about 1.5 times larger than Texas and two times larger than California(Mosbergen). In an article that came from Time talked about how plastics been going into our oceans and researches did calculations that say 5 to 13 million metric tons of plastic went into the ocean in the year 2010 and most of it came from the people who lived 30 miles away from the coast(Here's How Much Plastic Ends Up In the World's Oceans | Time.Com). I think this is terrible because many sea creatures that comes among this waste has a big chance of getting caught with something in the water that can cause the sea creature to die or to get
People have always used plastic as a number one way to carry most of the people objects or foods. worldwide annually use for grocery bags is about 1 trillion every year.In an article published by the journal science in 2015 conducted an experiment saying that 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in ocean every year. Obviously, that's a great amount of plastic ending up in the ocean and people already have discovered places in the ocean full of plastics just floating in the ocean. The same journal of science estimated by the year 2025 there would be 20 times the 8 million metric tons that's equivalent to 100 bags of plastic per feet in the ocean(Plastic Pollution). There are a variety of answers for how long it takes a plastic bag to biodegrade, but the thing is that it takes years for plastics to biodegrade. The people of earth are creating more bags every day, then the rate the plastic bags biodegrade. In the ocean about 90% of the trash is plastic, that's a lot of plastic just …show more content…
An example where trash has been going into ocean is in an article named New Plastic Garbage Patch Found in The South Pacific Could Be 1.5 Times Larger Than Texas. In this article, a person they call captain Charles Moore discovered a polluted patch of plastic about 1.5 times larger than Texas and two times larger than California(Mosbergen). In an article that came from Time talked about how plastics been going into our oceans and researches did calculations that say 5 to 13 million metric tons of plastic went into the ocean in the year 2010 and most of it came from the people who lived 30 miles away from the coast(Here's How Much Plastic Ends Up In the World's Oceans | Time.Com). I think this is terrible because many sea creatures that comes among this waste has a big chance of getting caught with something in the water that can cause the sea creature to die or to get