The world population continues to grow. This is a reason why the consumption of goods increases and therefore the demand for plastic. The latter results in a greater pollution consist of 75 percent of plastic. The amounts of plastic waste end up largely in rivers that flow again to oceans and seas. The quantity of plastic that finally floats in oceans is called the plastic soup. In order to maintain a responsible ecosystem, we should decrease the plastic soup. The question is, how can this objective be achieved. First of all, it is necessary to amplify why this plastic soup is a spacious problem.
The article of Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation make this problem clearer. It describes the enormous amounts of plastic floating between Hawaii and San Francisco, discovered by Charles Moore during his sailing trip. Charles Moore saw that this ''soup'' consisted of large and minuscule pieces of plastic, which form a threat for the organisms in oceans. Larger mammals could become trapped and thereby injured, suffocate or drown. The amounts of small plastic can be seen by organisms like plankton and thus as food. This makes clear why the plastic enters the stomach of these animals, which will eventually lead to mortality. The scale at which this can happen may cause certain species to extinguish.
After explaining what plastic soup is and why it is harmful to our ecosystem, we still need to describe the mechanism behind this pollution. What is plastic? Out of what does the cycle of plastic from production and consumption to ocean pollution consists? Plastic is a synthetic material used in many areas. Besides being used as packaging material it can be found in cars, furniture, utensils, et cetera. The advantage of plastic is that it is present in abundance in our society. Another advantage of plastic is that it is a very strong substance. This advantage can be a disadvantage also due to the fact that it takes a long