ScrAPES #2-Plastic in the ocean

"Living on Earth" podcast      June 5, 2015 

In the podcast the parts we saw was all about plastic and how much are in the ocean due to different things, one being humans. There is so much plastic in the ocean thanks to us. Plastic is almost un-breakable so we have to wait for it to decompose for almost centuries. Micro-plastic is dangerous in the ocean since fish think it's plankton and eat it. 8 million metric tons of plastic are dumped into the water all year. The thing is we  don't need all this plastic so we are just wasting so much of the environment for no reason. 

This really just shows us how we are at this moment even though some of us are helping. There is not enough of us to help with this plastic problem. This could be used to show many people what we must do to help nature and not kill our food/friends of the Earth. Sweden is a good example of what we must do. They know how to control their plastic supply without causing too much of a problem. This is what we must do in order to not have the problem happen earlier.

We need people to know about this problem without causing too big of a hoopla about it. This will save a bit of the planet so that we don't have to fix it later and waste a lot of money. All we need are new laws on plastic or use of it like maybe just using reusable bags instead of plastic. This is how we can save the situation.