Plastic Pollution Introduction The world population is living‚ working‚ vacationing‚ increasingly conglomerating along the coasts‚ and standing on the front row of the greatest‚ most unprecedented‚ plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form‚ the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the the world’s oceans‚ yet mostly originating from where we stand: the
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Focus on Trash Island‚ Save Our Life Ignored by humans for decades of years‚ garbage floating on the ocean has become a trash island. The island consists of plastic bags‚ cans‚ tires and other plastic debris. The worse thing is that the trash island is still growing. The seawater in the center of Subtropical Airflow of pacific flows extremely slowly‚ with the addition of weather patterns‚ a large amount of garbage gather in this place. Year after year‚ a trash island has formed‚ which was called
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Plastic is everywhere. Where does all this plastic end up? It does not just disappear when we throw it away into our (plastic) garbage bins (lined with plastic bags). Much of it piles up in landfills; however‚ we have allowed some plastics to filter into the ocean where it has accumulated into a giant water saturated mountain of plastic trash. And this mass accumulation of garbage is wreaking havoc on delicate salt water ecosystems.Although it has made life easier‚ overuse of plastic causes a serious
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION: A GLOBAL TRAGEDY FOR OUR OCEANS AND SEA LIFE Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone‚ 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags‚ straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. Today billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. Plastics pollution has a direct and
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such as pollution from the garbage‚ air pollution from cars and industry‚ pollution released into water from the factories and so on. There are many occurring spots worldwide that serious pollution problems have taken place‚ but do you wonder where those places are? Some of the significant scenes are worth knowing. Here are some scenes that pollution problems currently occur in this world and yet are serious but they are relatively unknown. They include pacific garbage patch‚ Beijing air pollution
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2008. pg.14-16. This article talks about the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that’s in the North Pacific Ocean. It also explains how 80% of the debris is plastic that floats for hundreds of miles until it’s caught up in a gyre. I would use this article to show how plastic ends up there and is broken down by sunlight and salt and ingested by fish and birds. Blomberg‚ Lindsey. By the Numbers‚ The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. NOAA Marine Debris Program. HYPERLINK “http://marinedebris.noaa
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Technology‚ Society and Environment Man versus Nature Technology Versus Environment Money Versus Wild Life “We have used the oceans as our toilet and it is now catching up with us.” Greg Bossart‚ chief veterinary officer of the Georgia Aquarium The pollution that the most intelligent species on earth creates and carelessly discards continues to destroy the environment of the most beautiful locations on planet earth at the sacrifice of a vast number of innocent sea creatures who are paying
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David A. Glaesser BUS311: Organizational Behavior November 17‚ 2011 Professor: Arlene McConville Module 6 Journal Entry 1 Decision-Making Process The theory of the garbage can model as a decision making vehicle according to the original authors is based upon the assumption that “decision opportunities are fundamentally ambiguous stimuli” (Cohen‚ March & Olsen‚ 2001). This concept lends itself well to the organized
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Marine debris‚ commonly known as marine litter‚ is man-made waste that is deliberately or accidently released into oceans‚ lakes‚ seas or any other type of waterway. 6.4 million Tonnes of garbage are found in the world’s oceans every year and it just keeps increasing. 90% of this garbage is found to be plastic. Marine debris comes in many different forms. One form is ghost nets‚ these are fishing nets that fish and other creatures get caught in. The ghost nets restrict movement which means that
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of deaths caused by plastic (The Problem of Marine Plastic Pollution). According to Recycling Facts‚ “Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as one million sea creatures a year.” There is even a “landfill” called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that is twice the size of Texas and floats between California and Hawaii. This garbage patch is composed of eighty percent plastic and weighs around 3.5 million tons. The documentary‚ Bag It‚ also explores how plastic impacts
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