Garbage Patch

 Garbage in the ocean

Littering

Garbage in the ocean has been causing a lot of problems in the world, affecting marine life everyday and destroying reefs that may never come back. Littering is a major problem in the world. Littering damages the oceans, the plastics we use have been killing whales and destroing 85% of the oxygen in the world.

Daily use of plastic

The daily use of plastic is growing but also decreasing, the litter that people are picking up are being replaced by plastic that we drop. The plastic that we use is being dropped in the ocean which is degrading into microplastics where they are infecting every living thing that swims. Daily use of plastic is hard to stop, it’s cheaper and a lot easier to get a hold of.

Government trying to stop Plastic in the ocean

Governments have been trying to stop pollution in any way they can but they can’t force people to do it, that’s why they try to spread the message anyway they can. 

They stopped people from Overfishing and made it law and stopped massive amounts of overfishing. China has resumed whale hunting which is a bad and terrible thing to start up again during this epidemic of plastic and loss of sea life.

People getting involved! 

A rise of people have been helping with the problem, when they go out people have been using non-plastic cutlery, straw, and bags but now since COVID-19 has left for now we have been decent in our use of plastic but been a little slack.

Tonnes of PLASTIC!

The problem is us, people out there don’t care or don’t know, if they know what the problem is it’s because people afford the non-plastic, the plastic is 269,000 tonnes of plastic that has been left there which makes it plastic soup.

The US has been a major factor since they were so late to the problem and when they realised they have already destroyed the oceans, and oceans is what they need for their major fishing companies. The seafood industry has been experiencing a lot of micro-plastics with the fish and found that they were already dying because of it, and uneatable.

Conclusion to our problem.

The thing that we need to do is to band together and work at this problem, making sure that whales are not dying and producing Phytoplankton, when this happens less of “Plastic soup” will be occurring and the Pacific ocean will be cleaner and thriving in it’s own habitat.