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Ocean Pollution (Potential Solution (People can refuse to use plastic,…
Ocean Pollution
Potential Solution
People can refuse to use plastic, which will lessen the amount of plastic in the ocean
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Switch out things at home that are plastic and replace them with glass, bamboo, etc.
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Pic up any trash that you can. In places like parks, the beach, streets, etc.
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Cause of Ocean Pollution
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Plastic bags and plastic in general. Plastic doesn't degrade in the ocean so it will stay in the ocean for a long time which becomes harmful animals
Statistics/Studies
Every minute one garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped into the ocean. Yearly 1.4 billion pounds of trash ends up in our oceans
To date, there have been 275 billion plastic bags produced worldwide in just 2017 alone. Every second 160,000 bags are produced and used.
By the end of this year we will have used 5 billion plastic bags. Of the 5 billion bags, 5 million of them will make them into the ocean.
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