Our Poor Ocean

  

   This week, I watched, which is a TED Talk called A Radical Plan To End Plastic Waste

that focuses on how plastic in the oceans affect it’s creatures and plants within, and

how we can help. The main idea of this talk is that plastic overall is such a bad tool to

use and produce, because no matter where it goes, it harms its surroundings. One idea

that I found interesting was that Andrew Forrest said recycling would make a huge

difference and help, because we would stop having the “need” to make more plastic.

    I thought it was interesting because it would honestly work if everyone put in their

part. With recycling all the plastic we use into other plastic bottles or containers we

wouldn’t have the “need” to make more. And just simply keep reusing, Andrew Forrest

also came out and said that if we were to raise the price of plastic it  would encourage

companies to recycle and reuse plastic and not to buy it “fresh”. Recycled plastic is a

cheaper choice than buying new plastic and is way helpful towards the environment. 

    It made me wonder how much plastic really is in the ocean, so I looked up some

more information about this idea. On the website Condor Ferries, I found more

information about the dangers of plastic. One piece of information I found was that

more than 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals die from plastic pollution

every year. This information supported the information in the original TED Talk I

watched. It is showing you how when plastic makes its way to the ocean it can really

affect its surrounding, showing that if we simply just recycled and put our part in we

would be saving so many animals who are eating or trying to eat this stuff. 

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