The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the planets biggest cluster of soaring trash, there are greater than 79,000 tonnes of plastic in the ocean in just a 1.6 million square kilometer area. The sum of garbage is up to sixteen times bigger than past measurements. This essay will discuss why it is important for people to have an awareness of “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” through how it was initially discovered, how people can change it positively in many ways, and greater issues that will occur if we do not stop it.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was originally found in 1997, by a surfer, scientific researcher and sea captain, Captain Charles Moore. As he had sailed home threw the North Pacific Ocean among the U.S West Coast and Asia, he was …show more content…
If everyone on the planet really thinks before they throw out or use unnecessary plastic there would be less plastic and garbage around to worry about. People use and waste plastic so much that they do not even realize how much they are really using. Recycling is a huge thing because it can save so much waste positively and help our planet survive, society needs to stop making so much garbage and waste it is bringing the planet down. “We need to reduce waste and come up with new, biodegradable alternatives to plastic. But one of the easiest steps is changing the way we use and discard the more ephemeral plastic products.” (Dubois, a spokesman for ocean cleanup). One thing Ocean Cleanup has pledged is a “moonshot” effort to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within five years, that will make a huge change. If people make a change the planet makes a change. If no one tries to change the way people are abusing the garbage the world will have big issues for …show more content…
Approximately 8m tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year. Marine life is in serious danger with the amount of the plastic in the oceans, studies show by 2050 their will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. The plastic is killing and if not hurting the marine life. “But we also need to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place. If we don’t manage the influx of plastics we will be the garbagemen of the ocean forever, which isn’t our ambition.” (The Guardian News). If people stop littering in the oceans and on shores there is a greater chance there would be less pollution in the oceans. “Fifty plastic items collected had a readable production date: One from 1977, seven from the 1980s, 17 from the 1990s, 24 from the 2000s, and one from 2010. Researchers also found 386 objects with recognizable words or sentences in nine different languages.”(National Geographic). Plastic does not disintegrate this means whatever is plastic that you just toss on the ground will not disappear. The plastic they had found was from different years and nine different languages which means this has been happening for years and in varys of countries, if people do not try to stop this now who knows when it will come to end. People need to learn to stop littering before the world stops and it is too late to take
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was originally found in 1997, by a surfer, scientific researcher and sea captain, Captain Charles Moore. As he had sailed home threw the North Pacific Ocean among the U.S West Coast and Asia, he was …show more content…
If everyone on the planet really thinks before they throw out or use unnecessary plastic there would be less plastic and garbage around to worry about. People use and waste plastic so much that they do not even realize how much they are really using. Recycling is a huge thing because it can save so much waste positively and help our planet survive, society needs to stop making so much garbage and waste it is bringing the planet down. “We need to reduce waste and come up with new, biodegradable alternatives to plastic. But one of the easiest steps is changing the way we use and discard the more ephemeral plastic products.” (Dubois, a spokesman for ocean cleanup). One thing Ocean Cleanup has pledged is a “moonshot” effort to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within five years, that will make a huge change. If people make a change the planet makes a change. If no one tries to change the way people are abusing the garbage the world will have big issues for …show more content…
Approximately 8m tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year. Marine life is in serious danger with the amount of the plastic in the oceans, studies show by 2050 their will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. The plastic is killing and if not hurting the marine life. “But we also need to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place. If we don’t manage the influx of plastics we will be the garbagemen of the ocean forever, which isn’t our ambition.” (The Guardian News). If people stop littering in the oceans and on shores there is a greater chance there would be less pollution in the oceans. “Fifty plastic items collected had a readable production date: One from 1977, seven from the 1980s, 17 from the 1990s, 24 from the 2000s, and one from 2010. Researchers also found 386 objects with recognizable words or sentences in nine different languages.”(National Geographic). Plastic does not disintegrate this means whatever is plastic that you just toss on the ground will not disappear. The plastic they had found was from different years and nine different languages which means this has been happening for years and in varys of countries, if people do not try to stop this now who knows when it will come to end. People need to learn to stop littering before the world stops and it is too late to take