The remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Midway Atoll, is covered with trash. This trash has washed up on the shore with the tide likely from the US or China, thousands of miles away. This island is a part of an enormous plastic garbage patch known as our oceans. Plastic waste is an increasing problem in our world. Nearly every piece of plastic ever made still exists in our world today and nearly 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually.
This article comes from CNN, a respectable and trustworthy news source. Before reading this article, I knew of trash being a problem in our oceans but I did not know it was to this extent. This makes me very sad to hear that our oceans and islands are so polluted! This article was written for everyone in our world to bring up the idea of the increasingly dangerous pollution problem. This article is important because it brings the truth of pollution on our earth to the surface. Something more needs to be done to address this increasing issue on our planet.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/world/midway-plastic-island/
The United States needs to do more to prevent the spread of trash polluting our oceans.
ReplyDeleteWe need to be more resourceful with out trash, etc. Polluting the oceans where innocent animals live is not fair to them. - Skyler Tepedino
ReplyDeleteThe US definitely needs to do more to make our environment better, instead of continuing to do what we are currently doing, which is slowly harming our planet. If more people recycled everything that was recyclable that alone would be a good start. It is not fair that we are harming sea life with our trash.
ReplyDeleteThis is very sad, and we need to take care of our country! This not only affects the pollution in our area, but the inhabitants around it. We need to take pride in our environment, not harm it. I agree with all those above me!
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