The demise of life as we know it

Plastics in our oceans and harmful side affects that you need to know before your own health and well-being is compromised.

There is an urgent need to increase awareness and educate people of all walks of life regarding the harmful effects of single-use plastics.

I’m not going to post disgusting and gory pictures of sea life suffering from Plastics and wast in our oceans. You can google it yourself.

Plastics in our oceans cause suffering and death to sea life. Imagine what it is doing to humans. We are what we eat.

Plastics in our oceans is convenient…

People love convenience. Convenience brings comfort.

At what cost is our comfort in using plastics that kill marine life?

At what cost, will it affect the Human race?

Plastic is one of the most common pollutants harming our waters and marine life.

Anyone or thing who eats seafood will eventually be eating the toxins produced by plastics in the oceans food chain.

There are many simple things we can do to begin fixing the problem.

However, until people remove the blindfold of what is happening to plastic waste, this problem will only get worse.

People need to eliminate the usage of single-use plastics.

If people do not take action, the human race will one day in the near future, wake up to a shocking reality of finding that it’s not only threatening the lives of millions of animals and sea life; but humans will find alarmingly high amounts of toxicity in their own bodies consumed in their food from plastics.

These toxic chemicals produced by plastics slowly, unknowingly, seep into the skin and bloodstream.

Out of sight out of mind, it’s easy to rid of the trash in the oceans because it disappears out or our site.

It is thought the trash will decompose or be eaten by sea life.

I remember in the Marines, while out at sea if we were 50 miles out, the Navy would dispose of the ship’s trash in the ocean.

It was said, there is always a school of sharks following that fed on the waste.

Humans treat the ocean like a giant trash bin.

Humans are the problem and can be the solution.

Ocean pollution affects more than 817 animal species around the world and has continued to increase each year by around 23% over the past 5 years. (Brucker)

8 million tons of trash goes into the ocean each year. If this continues over the next 30 years, there will be more trash than sea life. (Mallos)

It’s a big ocean! Why is it a problem?

Again, out of sight out of mind!

There are five oceanic “garbage patches”, known as 5 gyres, located in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans that are becoming visible from outer space.

The largest is in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretched between Japan and North America, with the greatest concentration between California and
Hawaii.

Though there are massive trash piles in the ocean, the deceptive and frightening pollution is what is unobserved.

There is what may look like a fog in the ocean, consisting of tiny microplastic.

The plastic is so small and buoyant that sea life mistakes this as food. The plastic accumulates in the digestive tract of marine life causing a slow and painful death.

When a predator consumes an infected animal they too will be infected.

Killer whales and Polar bears are the top predators and are the most contaminated animals on the earth, but what’s scary is that humans are the top predators on the earth. (Janaya Wilkins)

People need to eliminate the usage of single-use plastics because ocean trash affects the health of sea life, people and our economies.

Plastics pollute all of our beaches, oceans, and seas from the surface to the seafloor.

There are many simple things we can do to reduce plastic waste and begin solving the rapidly growing problem. (Janaya Wilkins)

The human race needs to change their habits of using single-use plastics.

Only 9% of plastic is recycled worldwide.

Here are some simple ways to avoid single-use plastics on a daily basis.

• Avoid bottled water and buy a water filter in your home. Use a glass or stainless steel drinking bottle.
• Use nonplastic reusable shopping bags.
• If you’re a beachgoer, spend 3-5 minutes picking up trash before you relax and enjoy the day.
• Stop eating on the go. Reduce your use of plastic cutlery and recycle where possible. If you like using a straw, carry your own stainless steel straw in your bag or on your person.
• Volunteer or donate to Ocean Cleanup Innovations.

There is an urgent need to increase awareness and educate people of all walks of life regarding the harmful effects of single-use plastics, because plastics in our oceans cause suffering and death to sea life.

I hope I have not only heightened your awareness but instilled a little fear into your minds.

The consequence; if the human race does not acknowledge the effects of their actions on being comfortable by utilizing plastics out of sheer convenience, not only marine life will continue to be affected by suffering and death, we too will be affected at the dinner table while we try to enjoy a meal.

Blue Ocean I miss you!

Works Cited

Brucker, Drew. RUBICON. 9 October 2017. 19 June 2019. .
Janaya Wilkins. SOLOACTIVE. 3 June 2019. 19 June 2019. https://sloactive.com/plastic-pollution/.
Mallos, Nicholas. Ocean conservancy. n.d. 19 June 2019. .

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