Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Introduction Every year an average of 88,000 pounds of debris washes up on California beaches, and there is an estimated 3.5 million tons of trash in the Pacific Ocean alone. I know what you’re thinking, why does this matter to us? I had the same question, so I researched the topic and found a plethora of information from scientists and sailors alike. Today I will explain to you why the amount of debris is so unnerving and urge you to do what we can do to help clean this problem up. Body Need…

caught another's passion. I had caught it before in AP Environmental Science. Notoriously the easiest AP class, it was by far the most interesting class I have ever been in. My teacher, Ms. Hunter, spoke with fire about the horrors of the great pacific garbage patch, condemned the destructive practices of industrial farming, and discussed in awe the advancements of alternative energy. No teacher cared about their subject as much as she did. She even invited guest speakers and organized field…

Angela Sun, a normal person who just wanted some answers, went on a journey to discover if a place called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was real. Around it was a bunch of birds called the Albatross. Albatross inhabit the island where the Garbage Patch is, and it affects them in the long-run. Birds that were alive one day were dead the next with a full stomach, and it was full of plastic which no one can digest. John Klavitter a…

in the wildlife. Vinyl flooring in houses can cause a similar pattern of effects in the human body and it can increase asthma and allergies. 4. Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) - This is also a low hazard plastic. It is used in bags for newspapers, garbage, bread and frozen food. This plastic doesn’t contain BPA, but it’s also leaching estrogenic chemicals. 5. Polypropylene (PP) - This plastic is used in yogurt containers and also in takeout food containers. This plastic is tested to leach at…

The Industrial Revolution has seen many a great innovation. Machines and technology has grown at an almost alarming rate, creating jobs, improving peoples lives, and creating a much more comfortable standard of living. But while our lives have improved the demand for resources and the amount of pollution has as well. A rapid change needs to happen in the way we as humans interact with the planet. Without swift action, within our lifetime, or our children’s lifetime, the world as we know it,…

care about what our country looks like. These pieces of garbage are not only making our country’s environment look bad, but is putting a lot of animals, and marine life in danger. There is so many different types of trash that make our land filthy that could be resolved. Thinking about recycling, many people do not consider recycling water. Although you cannot see water being…

oceans in trouble? They can no longer absorb the damage inflicted by the 7 billion people on Earth. Over many decades, the human race has overfished key species to near extinction, and polluted them with carbon dioxide emissions, toxic chemicals, garbage, and discarded plastics. A groundbreaking new study, recently published in Science, warned that our oceans are being irreparably damaged by human activity and could be on "the precipice of a major extinction event." Coral reefs, home to a…

“...the volume of plastic debris going into the world’s oceans could more than double by 2025, assuming current trends in coastal development and plastic use.” (Tibbets, 1). Plastic pollution is an ongoing issue that has affected our oceans for a long time. We produce numerous amounts of plastics everyday in order to fulfill our consumer based society. Because of that, we are dealing with the results of our actions. The overproduction and wastefulness of plastic have caused our oceans to be…

most polluted places. Blackwell asks if the human race destroying the Earth with all the pollution that we have been creating. In the book Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell travels to Chernobyl, Fort McMurray, Port Arthur, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch , The Amazon Rainforest, Guiyu & Linfen, and the Yamuna River, which are some of the world’s most polluted places. Also, the book states that,” today that society is an industrial one, resource-hungry and planet-spanning, growing so…

Animals are affected by so many man made problems and because of the problems humans make animals go extinct or are slowly dying. Sea turtles are vulnerable to ocean pollution at all stages of their life from being eggs to swimming in the ocean. Toxic metals may concentrate in the liver and the kidney of sea turtles. Pollutants can cause immediate harm to sea turtles through direct contact or over time it builds up in their tissue and can lead to immunosuppression resulting into disease or…