Microplastic in the Ocean by Lilly Pearson
Plastic is an amazing resource and can be used in many useful ways, but the dangers of it should also be known. The animals in the ocean, specifically small fish confuse microplastic for food and consume it so that as they get eaten and we eat them, we actually end up consuming plastic. Microplastic is any piece of plastic measuring less than 5 millimeters that fish commonly confuse as food. An estimated 90% of table salt contains plastic. The ocean continues to be littered with plastic and it’s hurting the environment and hurting us.
What can we do to help reduce the waste of plastic in oceans or in general?
How could we help stop plastic from getting into the ocean in the first place?
How does it make you feel that on a daily basis you consume plastic? Does that change your viewpoint on plastic in the ocean?
How could we help stop plastic from getting into the ocean in the first place?
How does it make you feel that on a daily basis you consume plastic? Does that change your viewpoint on plastic in the ocean?
keeping the ocean clean! is something that we should do. all the plastic on there is killing animals. - Aiden Tucker
ReplyDeleteThe ocean being polluted by plastic could bring up many daunting factors, A big one being the potential death of many fish leading to a downward spiral of the food chain.(Ian Noedel)
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there's a way to filter out even all the microplastic. -Tori Favazza
ReplyDeletewhat if we get million of people to come help clean the oceans and put filters in sewers to prevent plastic from going down to the ocean-khloie
ReplyDeleteWe all know it, we just never do it. If we simply STOP using one use plastics, our plastic production and waste would be decreased tenfold!
ReplyDelete-shamus landry
It's absolutely disgusting that there's so much trash in the ocean. -lizzy raupp
ReplyDeleteIf we keep the oceans clean the world in general will be cleaner over all-Daniel Biermann
ReplyDeleteThe only way I think we could decrease the amount of plastic in the ocean is by stopping plastic production. However this is unrealistic because its part of our everyday lives.
ReplyDeletelike if we eat long time plastic what going to happen to our body. we will die soon or we live longer. like if fish is die for plastic after sudden period time we dont going to have any fish.-romem
ReplyDeleteBetween 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are found in the ocean every year. -Lilly Pearson
ReplyDeletewe should recycle more than people do with our generation in the envi. to help the ocean more. Veronica D.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad to think that we consume plastic on a daily basis. I think that we really need to reduce our use of plastic if we want to keep ourselves healthy. - Fagan O'Connor
ReplyDeleteThis is very scary to think about especially because we are eating fish which are eating plastic.
ReplyDeleteMaddie Hollett
Using the actual recycle bins would help instead of throwing plastic where it shouldn't go could protect the fish and other animals from getting harmed. -Anadia Phillips
ReplyDeleteWe should keep in mind that plastic in the ocean is harmful and it does matter -Gabby
ReplyDeleteWhe should all know that putting trash in the ocean is killing animals every day and they are hurting animals and you can easily just go and fidn a trash can and go put it in there and not out it in the ocean
ReplyDeleteWe should all know thyat putting trash in the ocean is very abd for the animals in the ocean and it can kill the animals whenever you piut trash in the ocean, people need to go and put the trash in the rash can (Jack O'Leary)
ReplyDeletealmost everything we eat now has microplastics in. estuardo
ReplyDeleteI don't think I want to eat food any more but um I'm just going to say I have eaten many many fish for the sea.
ReplyDelete-From Gabriel