Ocean Every Year By Laura Parker Summary

“Eight Million Tons of Plastic Dumped in Ocean Every Year”, is written by Laura Parker for the National Geographic Magazine where she is a writer-editor. Ms. Parker graduated from the University of Washington as a source of where she received her education. In past years Parker served more then 15 years at USA Today and Washington Post as senior national correspondent. She has credentials for writing about the environment since she covered Hurricane Katrina and also the 2010 Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and other environmental works. I found this article on National Geographic website. I’m unaware of the page numbers of where one could find this article in hard copy. However I know the month and year. Which is Friday the 13th of February of 2015. Ms. Parkers article “Eight Million Tons of Plastic Dumped in Ocean Every Year” talks about how scientists are coming up with new ways to go about measuring the amount of trash that is in the ocean. They found that the ocean’s garbage patches had eight million tons of plastic trash in 2010 this is far more then the total that was measured floating. This is not good new due to the fact that this number is going to increase in the next decade. The only way this could lower is if the world is able to find a better way to collect
The examples could be how plastic bags reach the ocean and how people are helping this problem. Maybe by saying when a person throws a plastic bag out the window of there car the bag is then carried by the wind until it gets hooked on a tree or weighed down one way it is weighed down is when the plastic gets wet it is harder to be picked up by the wind so it sets on top of the ocean until it is token over by water and starts its long life of floating in the ocean. The article had scientific information that I had mentioned above that helped and claims that might have been viewed as an