Project On Marine Pollution

I'm in the ocean every day, it’s my second home. Because of this, I am very sensitive to literary and other pollution that ends up in our oceans. I can't walk down the beach today without seeing a pile of trash. Because of this curiosity, I wanted to research what another type of litter fill our local ocean. Our ocean is filthy, Plastics and fibers make their way into the sea naturally every day. Apart from the rest of the trash, some of these plastics and fibers are microscopic, coining the term microfibers or microplastics. This problem is getting worse. Much like global warming in the past, this problem is not clearly obvious. As a society, we have made numerous efforts to begin to clean up our oceans and beaches, but our tiny particle problem still goes undetected, unevaluated, and unresolved for most of the world's population. So we will probably ask how are they getting there?

Society tends to blame the fisherman for the trash that turns into marine debris. They are wrong. According to the California Coastal Commission, “Only 20% of the items found in the ocean can be linked to ocean-based sources, like commercial fishing vessels, cargo fish or pleasure cruise ships. The remainder (80%) is due to land based sources like litter (from pedestrians, motorists, beaches visitor), industrial discharges (in the form of plastic pellets and powders), and garbage management.”. Fisherman and other trained workers in the oceans are not the only

As time passed I learned the term “Marine Pollution” , but it wasn’t because anybody taught me it, it was because I began noticing it as I would visit the beach. I would notice more and more trash in the waters, or hear about oil spills frequently. I have witnessed died marine animals on the coast due to an over consumption of trash, which is provided by us. The plain fact is that we have come to a point where we have so gravely polluted our oceans, we cannot 100% fix this problem. We have created “trash islands” that are 3x the size of france, but we still have an opportunity to work from where we are and help to improve the situation and not allow for this to get any worse. Some of the top ways to reduce ocean pollution are, stopping the use of single-use plastic, recycling, participating or creating river/beach cleanups, supporting bans/organizations etc. What I mainly want to focus on for my part is beach cleanups, and informing people on this topic and what easy actions they can do to

As instructed in class, this proposal is written in response to the proposal requests for environmental innovations in CCDP2100. Team OPC is seeking approval from you, Dr. Marlene Lundy, to continue working on our innovation that would tackle the pollution crisis in the ocean. In the following sections of the memo, background information to the problem, technical aspects of the innovation, and the proposed timeline of the project will be discussed.

Walking through the traditional grocery store, consumers find hundreds of plastic items to make their lives more convenient. Individually wrapped pop tarts, plastic zip lock bags to store sub sandwiches for lunch, deodorant cases, plastic combs to groom hair, diapers, and soda bottles. Unless specifically requested to carry a cloth bag, even the bags we use to carry our groceries home are produced plastic. To society, these are items of convenience and not necessity. But to marine animals that reside in our ocean, they can be a hazardous warzone, “which ends up polluting our oceans and killing millions of birds and fish and more than 100,000 sea turtles, according to the Sierra Club”(D.G.22). Plastic whether it is a syringe,

In the documentary “Inside the Garbage of the World”, the main social problem being explained is that there has been a great influx of plastic and other type of garbage in oceans and their beaches. This buildup of pollution has largely affected the wildlife population ranging from animals on the beaches to the creatures of the ocean. In oceans, what is called ‘garbage patches’, a large buildup of garbage that flow to one area in the oceans, are being created. Approximately 50 percent of all plastic sinks to the bottom of the ocean floor but about 2 times that much is actually already on the ocean floor. In fact, according to the documentary, there is a garbage patch that is to the left of California that is the size of half of the United States. Each year, about 4.7 million tons of plastic goes in the ocean a year and it is estimated that by 2050, there will be another 33 billion tons of plastic added to the present amount. Eighty percent of the current pollution comes from the land. According to marine researchers, twice as much plastic debris is one the ocean floor than it was 10 years ago. In the futures, plastic will break down into smaller pieces of plastic, creating a bigger problem from the habitat. This plastic pollution is one of the leading cause for beach and ocean inhabiting creatures be extinct because animals are mistaking these plastic pieces for food. When scientist began to dissect beach animals such as birds, they discovered that at least fifteen pounds of

Research indicate that garbage such as plastic can create a problem for humans as well as marine species. Pollution in the ocean endangers defenseless marine creatures that wander in the ocean. Occasionally, when scientists dissect marine life fragments of plastic that has littered the ocean floor is found in their digestive systems. Animals are not equipped to distinguish between trash and food. If individuals experienced conditions similar to the ocean marine life, they would probably hesitate before discarding litter in the water and on the beach. Just like creatures in the sea humans can be exposed to the toxic chemicals from manmade debris. Sea turtles are especially susceptible to choking from discarded plastic. We can preserve beaches

Everything on earth has a purpose. Like the ocean. The ocean provides more than half of the oxygen in the atmosphere. It is also 97 percent of the Earth’s water. Everything that you wear, eat, and drink happened because of the water provided from the ocean. No matter what it’s hard to live without the ocean. Now what would happen if the ocean was polluted? The seafood that we eat would get infected so we will be eating infected fish, our water would be contaminated and our body can become infected , and we can possibly die from it.

Debris in our world’s oceans is a continuum threat, especially plastic debris. Plastic debris causes choking of creatures by tangling or getting wrapped up and caught in it. Plastic also bleeds out toxins out into the great sea, and specifically into some ecosystems. Toxins let out increases the chance for the some to be sucked in by organisms themselves. Numerous people throughout the world have no clue how littering can hurt us as human beings and other organisms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explains marine debris as "any persistent solid material that is manufactured or processed and directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, disposed of or abandoned into the marine

Animals shouldn’t have to suffer because of us, “Plastic materials of varying kinds had spread to all oceans and adjacent seas by the late 1970s or early 1980s and wide concern was being expressed over the amounts of cylindrical, virgin plastic pellets that are industrial feedstock, together with fragmented plastic particles of varying size and shape that were being ingested by pelagic seabirds”. More than a million seabird and water life is killed by plastic, every year. To make matters worse, 10% of plastic that is made in one year ends up in sea, which in turn is harm animals and/or mammals. Once trash enters the sea, it pills up and then water current wash it up on shore. Littering isn’t just a hazard for humans, but all living

Ocean pollution is one of the most urgent issues in our world today. The ocean is crucial to our ecosystem and it is being severely damaged at an alarmingly increasing rate. In this paper I will educate about the role the ocean plays in our beautiful Earth, why it is being so widely ignored and dismissed, the causes of pollution, and its effects on animals and humans alike.

We 're treating the oceans like a trash bin: around 80 percent of marine litter originates on land, and most of that is plastic. Plastic that pollutes our oceans and waterways has severe impacts on our environment and our economy. Seabirds, whales, sea turtles and other marine life are eating marine plastic pollution and dying from choking, intestinal blockage and starvation. Scientists are investigating the long-term impacts of toxic pollutants absorbed, transported, and consumed by fish and other marine life, including the potential effects on human health.

The world population is standing on the front row of the greatest plastic waste tide ever faced.

As the world develops and the human population grows there is more pollution being dumped into the oceans, causing major problems to marine life and ecosystems. Major causes of marine pollution involve non-point pollutants, marine garbage, toxic ocean pollutants and sewage disposal in oceans. From heavy metal poisoning including lead and mercury killing predators such as sharks and whales, to waste getting trapped in the digestive tracts of marine animals, this essay focuses on how human interference causes horrifying problems to the marine life, but also how to fix it. It will also explore the normal activities of people including farming and how this can cause an imbalance in an ecosystem. Everyday activities can cause massive nutrient

Throughout history humans have always neglected the ocean and polluted the ocean. Pollution has been around even since the Roman times. Marine pollution today has gotten worse due to the fact that society is ignoring the issue and still making over 220 million tons of plastic that are produced each year. There are now close to 500 dead zones covering the ocean globally That is equivalent to the surface of the United Kingdom. Society had let these conditions fester for too long. Marine pollution has impacted society in different types of ways such as nonpoint source pollution, point source pollution, and the negative impact marine