I chose this topic because I think animals are very important and marine dumping has a lot to do with animals.
Marine Dumping
By Grady Collins
INTRODUCTION:
Hi Im Grady and I'm here to talk about marine dumping. Have you ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Well, it is one example of marine dumping. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is basically an island of trash. It is located between kuroshio and california. How did it got well people put trash in the water and the cceront brot it here. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not the only marine trash vortex—it’s just the biggest. A trash vortex is of course an island of trash. The Atlantic and Indian Oceans both have trash vortexes. Even shipping routes in smaller bodies of water, such as the North Sea, are developing garbage patches.
CAUSES of Marine Dumping:
Oil spills, ocean mining, land run off and just plain littering are all causes of marine dumping and some you can read on other documents in third grade.
PROBLEMS of Marine Dumping:
The garbage produced by each household in the form of paper, aluminum, rubber, glass, plastic, food if collected and deposited (put into the sea in some countries. These items take from 2 weeks to 200 years to decompose. When it enters the ocean it can harm many animals and humans to by clogging there engions and the animals by well getting stuck on there heads there feat and tails.
SOLUTIONS
But you can help. Some ways you can help are to go around your neighborhood and
pick up trash. Some other bigger was are the C.W.A. (Clear Water Act) and the O.D.A. (Ocean Dumping Act) They both help keep are water clean. The basis of the CWA was enacted in 1948 and was called the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, but the Act was significantly reorganized and expanded in 1972. "Clean Water Act" became the Act's common name with amendments in 1972.
My Resources:
Here are some sites I used.
https://www.epa.gov/ocean-dumping/learn-about-ocean-dumping#main-conte
Here are some other water pollutants.
- Global warming
- Industrial waste
- Sewage and wastewater
- Oil spills
- Septic tanks and sewage
- Underground storage leakage
- Mining activities
- Pesticides and herbicides
- Urban development
- Animal waste
- Acid rain
I hope you learned something about marine dumping.
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