Pollution in our oceans is a serious problem. According to Marie Wild in her article “Ocean Pollution”, “Ocean pollution is one of the major killers of our sea animals.” Most of the waste that is dumped is plastic, which takes hundreds of years to break down (Oceanic Research Foundation [ORF]). People are destroying aquatic life through the dumping of waste materials into the waters, and the chemical runoffs, which unbalances the natural food chain.
Everyday millions of animals are caught in fishing nets and six pack beer rings. It is thought that only fish are affected from getting caught in these. In reality they also kill birds, turtles, dolphins and seals. The animals are slowly strangled or suffocated by the rings as well as cans, fishing line, nets, kite strings and ropes (Wild). Or, as stated be
the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), they die from accidental consumption (NWF website).
Unfortunately there are many toxic substances, which are affected only slowly or not at all, by this and other processes. These are called persistent and are of great environmental concern. . All of these things are polluting our oceans and slowly killing organisms that are vital to the environment. There are things that can be done to help save our oceans and if we don’t start soon it may be too late.
Garbage is not the only threat to the safety of our oceans though, other things, such as, air pollution and chemicals are dangers too. Ships cause much of this pollution, often dumping raw sewage into the ocean (Ocean Dumping-The Causes of Ocean Pollution; Ed Hunt, pg. 37). Also responsible are the factories that are located on the c
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