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Facts About Plastic Pollution:
Our population in 2016 was 7 billion and as a species, we produced 320 million tons of plastic pollution that year. That number is set to double by 2034 (2). We can not let this happen, we will be in a catastrophe of trash and pollution that will be devastating to life on this earth. Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic are polluted into the oceans, and over 100,000 marine mammals and 1 million sea birds are killed by plastic annually. There could be up to 5 trillion macro and microplastics drifting in the ocean weighing up to 260,000 tonnes (2).
Plastic pollution is starting to hurt our oceans baldy and we need to change our ways of life to preserve this beautiful world. Whether it is seeing a whale carcass with pounds of plastic balled up in its stomach that it has eaten or a turtle with a straw in its nose causing it pain, it brings sadness seeing how baldy we have affected the environment. You may not worry about pollution ever affecting you but think of your kids' kids, and what kind of world you want them to live in. We need people to stop being self-centered and think about the species population as a whole and how plastic affects us.
Gavin G.
Our population in 2016 was 7 billion and as a species, we produced 320 million tons of plastic pollution that year. That number is set to double by 2034 (2). We can not let this happen, we will be in a catastrophe of trash and pollution that will be devastating to life on this earth. Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic are polluted into the oceans, and over 100,000 marine mammals and 1 million sea birds are killed by plastic annually. There could be up to 5 trillion macro and microplastics drifting in the ocean weighing up to 260,000 tonnes (2).
Plastic pollution is starting to hurt our oceans baldy and we need to change our ways of life to preserve this beautiful world. Whether it is seeing a whale carcass with pounds of plastic balled up in its stomach that it has eaten or a turtle with a straw in its nose causing it pain, it brings sadness seeing how baldy we have affected the environment. You may not worry about pollution ever affecting you but think of your kids' kids, and what kind of world you want them to live in. We need people to stop being self-centered and think about the species population as a whole and how plastic affects us.
Gavin G.
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