The Waste Land

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…

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…

can't go a few steps to throw their rubbish away and leave it for it to get blown away into the water affecting marine life. Ocean pollution has many causes that can be fixed for example, sewage systems flowing to the ocean, oil spills, littering, and land runoffs but most of the solutions don't work. There are some solutions that are working like, Fishing for Energy and Plastic Pollution Institution but its working slowly. Ocean pollution can damage the reproductive system of marine species…

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Do you like to breathe? Obviously otherwise, you would die. Do you know we, human beings, are eliminating that main factors in our lives? We are doing this on our own because of we are lazy enough to grab a plastic pot and throw it into a recycling bin or not even have one. We prefer to throw garbage into the closest trash can or not even throw it into a bin but in the streets. Do you think recycling is important? I do, if you do we are okay, but if you don't I will explain why. Have you…

Littering is a potential danger to animals because it can cause them to die, eventually becomeing endangered, and even extinct. In thean article, “5 Ways Plastic Pollution Impacts Animals on Land” by Malorie Macklin, she states quotes that approximately, 101 million animals die each year because of litter and other pollutants. Litter consists of trash that can crucially affect our environment. Whether small or large, trash can have dramatic effects to our environment and animals that people need…

quite able to bear the brunt of the human race. This, however, is not true as is becoming increasingly apparent. Over a few decades, humans have managed to dump tons upon tons of garbage into the ocean. Around 80 percent of marine litter originates on land, and most of that is plastic. The conservative estimate is that around 4.8 million metric tons of garbage, specifically plastic, is realised into world’s ocean each year. Some researchers believe the real number to be close to 12.7 million…

Introduction: It is estimated that around 706 million gallons(2.6 Billion liters) of oil is polluted into the ocean each year(4). Majority of the oil pollution oil comes from ashore from waste disposal, land drainage and improper disposal of used motor oil(4). In recent times it has been discovered that a possible solution for oil pollution is the “Oleo Sponge”(as seen in figure 1(11)), an oleophilic and hydrophobic sponge that collects oil and rejects water housing up to ninety times its own…

Many of these products can be recycled but there are some many that just slip through the cracks and end up all over the environment. Whether it is on the land or in the sea it doesn 't Mather it all has to go somewhere and most of the time it 's just over looked. The ocean is the worst in my opinion because that 's where much of our plastic products seem to end up which is not only bad for us but it is bad…

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…