pollution problems

Pollution and Wildlife and Marine Life  By Brad

Poor animals are always dieing from plastic bags and are hopeless.

Which animals are hurt?

Seabirds, whales, turtles, sharks, fish, dolphins and seals are always dying from eating plastic.

There are many varieties of threats to whales too. Most are from human activities. When we use products that let tiny beads off into the ocean, most of the time hair gel and that sort of thing and face wash the beads are eaten by whales, fish, seabirds and it is an easy but dangerous meal to digest.  It gets stuck in their stomach and builds up and they can’t eat and die of starvation. These beads are called parabens and they are now illegal in New zealand for vairous reasons I will get into detail just for extra detail just so you know what to be awear of. Parabens were in toothpaste and made it so you would have really bad teeth that were even kinda brittle.

Turtles and Plastic Pollution

Hundreds and thousands of turtles die a year from eating and getting stuck in plastic. Because they think its food and they cant swim in it they get stuck in it. Then the turtles sadly suffocate and die. The Great pacific garbage patch in the pacific ocean is 6.5 metres of rubbish deep. There is 3.5 millon tons of rubbish in this disgusting soup of death.

Seabirds

One millon seabirds die a year from eating or getting caught in plastic rings that get caught around their necks and feet which causes the failure of flight or breathing.

What can people do?

People can use less plastic bags and use cloth bags or paper materials.

Conclusion

The moral of these facts is to try and stop plastic being used as much as possible and pollution from spreading around earth.  We need to save the animals and humans from this crisis caused by a tiny matieral. One person can make a big difference by just using a cloth bag that we can reuse.

By Brad