Plastic pollution

Whenever you walk on the beach do you notice the plastic in the water or on the sand? Do you ever think that something should be done about this? Plastic pollution is something that’s hurting the environment and is growing more and more every year. Plastic pollution is caused by people using the ocean as a trash can. People are careless and would rather litter than throw the pastic bag away or recycle it. Convinenece to people is better for them than the environment. Throughout the years the pollution has gotten worse. In the last few years like in 2008, global plastic consumptin has been estimated at 260 million tons. It is estimated that in the year 2015, 297.5 million tons of plastic debris will be in the water. Last year 150, 000 tons of marine plastic debris ended up on the shores of japan and 300 tons a day on indias coasts. What we have to accept is that plastic never goes away and harms the environment very badly. Think about the things used in peoples daily lives like grocery bags, drinking bottles, and straws. Virtually every human being on this planet uses plastic materials directly and indirectly every single day. Plastic pollution kills, pollutes the water, and is difficult to clean up. Plastic pollution kills marine life. Marine animals such as seabirds, whales, and sea turtles are effected. An animal in the ocean just wants to survive. Plastic stops animals from surviving in various ways. Much of which inevitably finds its way into marine ecosystems as microscopic particles. The water gets dirty and its hard for the animals to breathe. A seaturtle can mistake a plastic bag for a jellyfish and that leads to blockade in the gut and leads to an internal death. The plastic also makes them buoyant, and unable to dive for food. Fish in the North Pacific injest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic every year. When seabirds injest plastic it reduces the storage volume of the stomach and makes them eat less. So the seabirds usually die from starvation.