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Ocean Pollution Around 1.4 million pounds of trash enters the ocean. Thats a lot of pollution. What is water pollution exactly? Water pollution is the release of substances, such as chemicals, energy, radioactivity or heat into a body of water. According to these articles, people are starting to neglect and not care about the ocean. Especially the younger generations. Marine pollution is affecting everything, including people, animals and marine life. Marine pollution has become an incredibly…

The Beach Towel Brand That’s Making A Difference For Marine Life. Ambassadors #savethefishies Founded in San Diego, California, by three friends with a passion for the ocean, Sand Cloud is a charitable beach lifestyle company, best known for its colorful handmade Turkish beach towels and it’s massive social media Ambassador following. Since its founding 2014, Sand Cloud has consistently been a beacon of awareness for marine life preservation. They donate 10% of their earnings back to…

“Current Science Event: Mealworms can Digest Plastic” Fascinating larvae known as mealworms have been found to be able to biodegrade specific types plastic and styrofoam through microorganisms found in their gastric juices. These larvae cannot only biodegrade plastic so it is not harmful to other aquatic life, but thrive on the innumerable quantities of this waste. Mealworms that engorge on plastic and styrofoam have been found to be just as healthy as mealworms that consumed an organic diet.…

How Plastic is Affecting Sea Animals “But while there are infinite reasons to love and respect the ocean, it can sometimes feel like the human race is doing everything in its power to harm it.” ~Landess Kearns (qtd. in “11 Quotes About The Ocean That Remind Us To Protect It”) The Ocean has turned into a giant garbage can full of trash, plastic, and waste. It affects seabirds, sea turtles, and even whales by hurting or even killing them. One animal species that is directly affected by this…

Cleaning Up What is Wrong Many people may argue whether or not it is necessary to clean up ocean pollution. Some believe that it is no harm to the animals. Others feel that pollution is a huge threat to the animals and can result in animal death. Even though individuals can respond by saying it is no big deal, ocean pollution should be controlled because pollution kills animals by strangling, stabbing, and poisoning. One reason people should pick up their trash is because trash ends up in the…

According to the National Oceanic Administration, there is approximately 1.4 billion pounds of waste and trash, in our oceans. Somers Point has been a great place for tourist to stop by, because of the route to water, and it’s certified water quality and condition. But, in the recent years, our percentage for water pollution has increased from 14% to 21%. The Clean Marina Initiative is an effective way to help stop this problem. Many people may argue that joining this type of program won’t make…

Have you ever thrown a gun rapper on the ground? Or maybe dropped a piece of trash and just didn’t pick it up? Although these things are little the effects they have on our world are large. Littering negatively impacts sea life, our everyday life, and costs a ton to clean up. Discarding plastic products, including snack wrappers and grocery bags quickly fill up landfills and even clog drains. According to the “Statistic Brain Research Institute” 9 billion tons of litter are…

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…

Plastic marine debris has become increasingly problematic. Angela Sun, a journalist from California, made a movie called, “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” The movie is about plastic marine debris and how it affects wildlife. Sun heard from a friend about this giant island in the Pacific Ocean called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most people believe that the garbage patch is a very large, solid patch of garbage sitting in the Pacific Ocean. They do not know that the patch…

ocean would help, reversing the past and changing the future. If done correctly it could improve the cleanliness of the ocean, thus creating a much healthier ecosystem. Although, the trash won't completely disappear it will decrease the amount of debris in the ocean making it more livable for all organisms. The Ocean Vacuum can clean the ocean's plastic from spreading and causing further harm to species in the ocean ecosystem. As species are able to thrive, biologists and researchers can learn…