The Clean Air Act Is The United States

Ocean pollution has been a huge tragedy to our marine habitats and life. Ocean pollution is a problem because it can be stopped and it was caused mostly by human actions. It’s definitely important to protect our oceans because our oceans have been a huge resource for living, and it has became a problem because of us so we can fix it. We can stop ocean pollution by reducing the frequency of oil spills, minimizing plastic waste, and reinforcing laws about littering.

In the article When the Mermaids Cry” The Great Plastic Tide by Claire Le Guern Lytle, she wrote “For more than 50 years, global production and consumption of plastics have continued to rise. An estimated 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012, and confirming and upward trend over the past years” This means that more and more trash is added to the 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the ocean. Almost everything around us is made out of plastic, this is later misused and ending in the wrong place. The Center for Biological Diversity wrote “In the first decade of this century, we made more plastic than all the plastic in history up to the year 2000. And every year, billions of pounds of plastic end up in the world’s oceans. Most ocean pollution starts out on land and is carried by wind and rain to the sea. Once in the water, there is a near-continuous accumulation of waste.” Our plastic is misplaced and it escalates from there. However, plastic pollution hurts us as well. “Trash in the water compromises the health of humans, wildlife and the livelihoods that depend on a healthy ocean;” wrote a non-profit group called Ocean Conservation. If our oceans are covered in trash, everyone that relies on the ocean is going to suffer. The effect is not just in our health, it also affects our economy. Ocean Conservation also

There are four named oceans in the world: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. Roughly 70% of the earth’s oxygen is produced by marine plants and only 27% by rainforests. Over 80% of ocean pollution comes from land based activity. This activity can include, but is not limited to, burning oil and not recycling plastics. With knowing those statistics, people should undoubtedly be more concerned with our ocean’s health and well being than what they currently are. Yes, there are a copious amount of websites that accept donations but there are other ways that do not involve breaking the bank to save and protect the oceans. By using reusable plastics, reducing our carbon footprint, and buying ocean-friendly products and food, the oceans dying process could not completely stop, but slow down drastically.

Some think of the ocean as a place of peace, or a getaway from our busy lives. Others think of it as where two worlds, aquatic and terrestrial, collide. No matter what you think of the ocean, it has sustained us for as long as we could possibly remember, and provided us with life. The ocean has provided everything we need to survive, and to repay it, we decided to destroy it. We have become monsters, demolishing what matters to us most. Over the past few decades, the amount of ocean pollution has rapidly increased, and has negatively affected the various species of sea creatures and plants. There are many different types of ocean pollution, including marine debris, ocean acidification, oil spills, and

The United States has had a problem with controlling how trash gets dealt with. The landfills have been full of trash and the input of trash is continuously coming in. Many times, the ocean is seen as a simple solution to get rid of mass amounts of garbage. This has made all of the oceans but more specifically, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, a home for many soda cans and plastic bags rather than Marlins and Great Whites. As humans, we rely on oceans for a main source of food. We have polluted our most influential life system that humans need to survive. As one of the most powerful and economically influential countries, the U.S government should be able to push a movement in the United Nations to get an Ocean cleanup program started nationally. This isn’t a problem that can be just left alone. Boris Worm, a marine ecologist with a PH- D in marine ecology said, by the year 2048, the ocean will be empty of fish, which could in return end life here on earth”. Boris is right, if we can not fix our oceans in the next forty years, it could be fatal to human kind. As stated before the ocean plays a huge role in a food source as well as weather conditions. For instance say that there was huge wind gusts blowing in from the ocean in Boston. Those winds are carrying deadly diseases from all the rotting waste that just sits in the ocean. Those diseases could be fatal for human kind, all because of where we put our trash.

In the world's oceans there a 5 large gyres. Each one of these gyres are known to be filled with trash. These gyres are, Indian Ocean Gyre , North Atlantic Gyre, North Pacific Gyre,South Atlantic Gyre, and South Pacific Gyre. The largest and most known gyre is found in the pacific ocean, and is known as the great pacific garbage patch. This garbage patch is double the size of Texas and can be as deep as nine feet in some areas. In 1971 it was suspected that only .1% of the world's trash went into the oceans. The projections today are far worse, it is expected that anywhere between 15-40% of the world's trash enters our oceans yearly. What is being done to counteract this. Well, PRI published Two proposals to clean up our oceans of garbage:

For decades, oceans have been one of the biggest dumpsters used throughout the world. Plastics among other pollutants have affected our oceans and freshwater as well as marine life. Plastic pollution effects not only the ocean and its’ marine life, but humans as well and not just in the United States, but everywhere. Landfills are running into water systems every day, carrying more plastics and trash into all of the oceans. For instance, in the Mediterranean Sea, sewage is untreated and that totals eighty percent. Sewage can lead to eutrophication, which is an enrichment of chemicals in an ecosystem, but it can cause human diseases as well. (Oceans) In reality, exposure to all marine organisms will be some sort of toxin or chemical, whether it is from the ocean or contaminated from human chemicals like pesticides. Deliberately dumped plastics and toxins spread into water systems daily. During the 1970’s dumping radioactive waste, chemical weapons, pesticides, and plastics have been disposed into oceans. The reason being was that people believed that since the oceans were so big that all the pollutants should be diluted, broken down, and dispersed throughout the ocean floor. In reality after disposal has continued for years, not a single pollutant has disappeared. In fact, 80% of plastics float, which means they will float for years until someone has picked them up or they have been broken down into smaller parts of oceans. Ocean pollution should end, even if it is recycling

Our oceans take a large beating every day by the extremely large amount of pollution humans produce. Our society easily dumps their waste into the oceans to dispose of the excessive amount of garbage, sewage, and chemicals, but this small and simple solution is creating an even bigger problem. The way humans dispose of their wastes is causing the death of our beloved marine life. Not only are we killing off our animals, our food source, and our resources, we are also minimizing our usable water. By having a better understanding of the problem with the severe dumping, it will be easier to find ways to help minimize the pollution that is going into the ocean.

If we can all work together to do this, Earth’s oceans would be a better place for everyone including marine life. If everyone would just care about our oceans, then this would motivate them to pick up after themselves. Oceans cover approximately 97% of the Earth, so if the oceans are clean, then almost all of our planet will be clean. No one expects the oceans to become spotless overnight. People think that this process will take many years of hard work to get through. But the people of Earth have accomplished things harder than this before. This problem is going to go away by ignoring it, so we need to do something about

Callum Roberts states in his book “The Ocean of Life”, “Over a third of dead animals examined have plastic in their guts.” (143) People are treating the oceans like a trash bin, around 80 percent of marine litter is from plastic. Animals close to the ocean are mistaken this plastic as food, so they eat it, choke on it, and die. Pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, detergents, oil, sewage, plastics, and other solids are common pollutants that reach the ocean. Nutrients from fertilizers can spread algae that take over the water and oxygen, leaving areas where no marine life can

While many treat the oceans as a convenient area to abuse, due to years of using the oceans as an unlimited source of food, a path for transporting goods, and a place to dump litter in, there are many growing issues due to these problems that could lead to the loss of the oceans completely. As a result of several problems caused by mankind, including unsustainable fishing practices, pollution, and indirect impacts, the marine ecosystem has changed in a drastically negative matter, which can later impact mankind due to the loss of many keystone species, and has the potential to negatively affect mankind as a whole. By taking the ocean for granted, we are leading not only the oceans towards disaster, but ourselves as well.

Every potato chip bag thrown on the floor, every balloon released into the air, and every gum wrapper discarded on the sidewalk has an affect on our planet. In the short term we view these acts as miniscule and irrelevant, but what most of us fail to understand is that every act of pollution has a snowball effect that only harms us and our environment. Unfortunately, most of the plastic waste we throw on the floor ends up on our beaches, in our waterways, and in our oceans. Especially in Florida, where everyone is at most 45 mins from the beach, it is not difficult for trash to find its way to our oceans. Marine debris, ocean trash or ocean pollution, regardless of its many names the rhetoric still stands; every piece of litter has a ripple effect that ultimately makes it to our oceans.

There is trash everywhere and our oceans are collecting a big majority of it. Animals in the ocean are dying more and more early in their lifetime because they’re eating plastic, metal, nets etc. Only us humans seem not to care or even think about the animals that do not know any better. This includes ships dropping unburned oil and gas into the ocean. The majority of us love to swim or fish in those pristine oceans, to surf, sail, watch the sun set, or play. Yet, hiding under the beautiful aqua surface is the hard truth. We are in the midst of an environmental catastrophe that is destroying our oceans.

We are causing harm to the only oceans and ocean animals in our world. Instead of taking care of it, we put plastic bags in the ocean. First, many sea animals would die because we do not reuse plastic bags and we don’t throw it away. We also do not ever wonder about how many plastic bags we are using. There is about eight million of trash in the coastal countries. Some people may wonder how it gets there. It gets there because we are the ones who put it in there. We don’t throw it away and we also let it

People are polluting the ocean in many ways But there are ways to help stop pollution too. People dump more than two billion metric tonnes of waste into the ocean(Doc.1). All of that pollution in the ocean is destroying the food chain as the smaller plants and animals are dieing off leaving the bigger animals with nothing to eat. If it only takes one piece of trash to kill an animal imagine how many animals are dieing if there are two billion metric tons of trash in the ocean(OI). There are lots of sources of this pollution. A few examples,are oil tankers spill,boats sink, and litter washes down the storm drains(Doc.2). These things can also hurt humans too not just animals and plants. Oil spills can kill fish which leaves fisherman with no