Animals are dying

Plastic is killing animals, and plants mainly in the aquatic life. According to reuseit.com "plastic pieces outweigh surface zooplankton in the Central North Pacific by a factor of 6-1". Zooplankton is one of the smallest living things in the ocean, and there are more pieces of plastic in the ocean. They are consuming the plastic, which is later passed on to whoever eats the plankton and eventually killing the consumer. Reuseit.com also states that of "500,000 albatross chicks born each year on Midway Atoll, about 200,000 die of starvation". Adult albatrosses mistake plastic trash for food and end up feeding it to their chicks. Animals do not know that plastic is harmful for their babies so they give it to their babies as food. Once the babies consume the plastic they eventually die because their stomach cannot take and cannot breakdown that kind of thing down. Plastic is the reason many animals are dying are yet we are not protecting them from the harm created by plastic. Plastic bags and bottles and hard to breakdown and this is creating a huge problem to marine animals. According to ecologycenter.edu about 100,000 animals such as dolphins, turtles whales, penguins are killed every year due to plastic bags. Most of these animals eat the plastic and this eventually leads to the animal’s death. The worst part about this is that once the animal dies it decomposes, but the plastic bag still lays around. Another victim then comes and eats the plastic again, and the same things happen to this creature. It just becomes a cycle in which more and more animals die. This is why I want to stop plastic consumption. I do not want more animals having to pay for the errors the humans are making.

PLastic bags and bottles effects on the ocean

Plastic can be very broad, but when talking about plastic bottles and plastic bags we can be specific enough. Plastic now a day is used to create many things, which we buy. For example when we go to the store many of our food is in plastic bags. Many of the liquids we buy are in plastic bottles, and most of the stuff we take home is taken in plastic bags. Most of time, once we used this product, we end up tossing it into the garbage where is later thrown into landfills. According to reuseit.com "60 billion single-use drink containers were purchased in 2006, and 3 out of 4 were thrown out directly after use." This means that 75 percent or 45 billion containers such as water bottles we thrown directly in to the trash and filling up more of our landfills or contaminating our oceans. Our oceans are one of things is suffering the most from our poor use and disposal of plastic bottles. According to plasticvpaper.com "ten percent of the plastic produced every year worldwide winds up in the ocean. 70% of which finds its way to the ocean floor, where it will likely never biodegrade. Never biodegrade this means that the plastic we are producing will live longer than us and by the way it will also contaminate our oceans. Plastic takes too long to degrade and many times in never degrades because in ends ups in landfills where it only ends up with more trash or in the ocean. Earth is a beautiful place and there is only one available and its up to us to decide what we want to do with it.