Bascially what it is, is a massive area of garbage stretching all the way from the coast of California to Japan, think of the 14 hour flight it takes to get from those two places.
"Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic whirlpool in the North Pacific. "
This is ruining our oceans and destroying the habitats of all sea animals. But it's hurting people too. These unhealthy conditions are being passed on to people who eat fish and sea food and even people who don't are going to expierence bad effects from this.
Plastic lasts for atleast 500 years or longer, so it's not going anywhere. This is going to be causing problems for people generations and generations after we are long gone. We should all try to do our best in keeping the Earth nice so we can have a nice place to live and the same for everyone after us.
I've just been learning about this so i'm not an expert.
Here are some links where you can learn more:
Eco Friendly Products:
Reusable aluminum water bottles. Plastic bottles leech harmful chemicals into your water but these won't.
These aren't always the cheepest but you can find other brands even in walmart now.
What i'm thinking about now is how to bring my schools attention to the amount of plastic kids throw away. We have about 2,500 students at my school. Hundreds and hundreds of soda and water bottle are purchased and tossed in the trash everyday and a ton more plastic is thrown out from the cafeteria. We need to have recycling bins in every class room and large one in the hallways just like we have trash cans.
I know that would be a lot of money to start a program like that and even harder with the additional 35 billion dollar budget cuts for next year but it's one of those things that is, pay now or pay later.
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