Plastic Pollution Essay

Do you like to breathe? Obviously otherwise, you would die. Do you know we, human beings, are eliminating that main factors in our lives? We are doing this on our own because of we are lazy enough to grab a plastic pot and throw it into a recycling bin or not even have one. We prefer to throw garbage into the closest trash can or not even throw it into a bin but in the streets. Do you think recycling is important? I do, if you do we are okay, but if you don't I will explain why. Have you…

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the planets biggest cluster of soaring trash, there are greater than 79,000 tonnes of plastic in the ocean in just a 1.6 million square kilometer area. The sum of garbage is up to sixteen times bigger than past measurements. This essay will discuss why it is important for people to have an awareness of “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” through how it was initially discovered, how people can change it positively in many ways, and greater issues that will occur…

environmentally friendly than the recycling and reprocessing of the once used plastic and glass. Shughart is correct in saying glass is more effective to remake rather than recycle because of the natural abundance of sand. He also gives the example of plastic doing more harm than good to recycle; however, Shughart only informs the reader of the short term benefits rather than the long term cost expenditure of remaking plastic from the modest amounts of crude oil. This essay will show the facts…

It has come to my concern and attention that recycling should be mandatory in ISA. Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year due to the garbage outburst that is not recycled. I personally believe that recycling should be mandatory in ISA because the EPA system averages out that 75% of the American waste stream of garbage is only 30% recycled which isn’t even half of it. Therefore ISA should go green and have recycle bins which then the recycled items will be processed to a…

colors, blue and green. Blue for the wonderful lush ocean and green for the fertile land that stretches for hundreds of miles. Water take up about 71% of the earth. But sadly our vast and lush water is being polluted every minute, every second by plastic and other nonperishable materials. The largest landfill on earth isn't even on land, it is in the Pacific Ocean and it is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The reason all the trash ends up in the same areas is because of the pacific…

help clean the bay. Although in Massachusetts when they first realized that the harbor was terribly dirty the MWRA took immediate action to do something and it was easier to do so because only one state was involved. The TMDL is referred to a pollution diet because it states that certain amounts of pollutants can still be added to the bay and the water is still considered good quality. As for the MWRA they stopped sewage from being discharged into the harbor so that pollutants would stop…

know what it is like to be poorer. Negative effects on the environment - Due to the increase of waste products there have been an increase of negative effects on the environment. The main effects that are of concern are pollution (global warming) and effects on wildlife. Air pollution – Natural dust storm, vehicles burning fossil fuels, coal, oil, fuel, cause the earth temperature to…

This paper has discussed the coherent waste problems with the emphasis on non recyclable plastics that our modern society is currently dealing with. The only way that she can successfully begin to solve this problem is to educate our communities and make them aware of of difference that they can make. This type of education process has to begin at school. We have begun this process in the lower level schools with educating students on how to recycle, but we have yet to explain them why we…

overfishing, destruction of habitat, and pollution come to mind. However, until recently plastic, an emerging contaminant has gone unnoticed. Therefore, today scientists are still learning about the input and impacts of plastic into the ocean environment (Barnes, 2009). Plastics are found everywhere in the forms of milk jugs, candy wrappers, grocery bags, bottle caps, and drinking straws just to name a few. Humans on average generate…

believe super markets should be required to enforce a 25 cent per plastic bag fee? Which will save our environment, and keep plastic out of our oceans, landfills and storm drains. Or do you believe this fee is unnecessary, and it penalizes people who do not have an adequate amount of money to buy reusable bags? For the poor do not need another fee, and workers don't need the extra work. However, isn't it depressing to see how much plastic has accumulated over the years on our planet. The…