Plastic Pollution (Blogging Challenge Week 5)

                       Plastic Pollution

Did you know that over 400,000 marine animals die every year due to plastic pollution in the ocean. Plastic is poison to marine animals that eat them. Littering, eventually causes floating ocean plastic that sinks to the ocean floor or ends up on shores of beaches all over the globe. Today (April 22nd) is Earth Day which is held every year. This year (2020) marks 50 years of Earth Day! I’m informing you about this topic, Plastic Pollution because I would like to raise awareness of marine animals almost becoming exstinced because of Plastic Polution and our use of plastic.

Everyday approximatley 8 million pieces of plastic poloution find their way into our oceans. Around 5.25 trillion micro & microplastic peices are floating in the open oceans. Weighing up to 269,000 tonnes. That's like dumping one whole New York City garbage truck full of plastic into the ocean every day for the entire year! Plasic has been found inside seabirds and turtles with more than 60% of seabirds and in 100% of sea turtles that mistaken plastic for food.

What can we do to help? Firstly, we can cut down our use of plastic for excample instead of bying plastic bags to carry our shopping with, we can use tote bags, maerial bags and other sorts of bags instead of plastic bags because 10% of the plasic in the ocean is plastic bags. It is estimated about 300 000 million plastic bags end up in the ocean every year. In some shops they have stopped selling plastic bags and changed to selling tote bags and other material bags. We can also stop using plasic straws and change to using metal straws that you can use more than once because straws are very harmfull to our marine animals like other plastic. Reducing, reusing and recycling is another great way to reduce plastic in our oceans. You can make different arts & crafts with your plastic, reuse plastic bottles and more.

 There is also a global company called 4Ocean Bracelet. The company use plastic from the the ocean to make their bracelet. Each time you buy a bracelet, it takes 1 pound of rubbish out of the ocean. This is a good, helpful way to reduce plastic in the ocean. It also helps give jobs to unemployed people. This is a simple way to help save our oceans.