I chose this water pollution topoc because I thought it would be fun to learn about and I thought it was going to be an interesting topic. I hope that marine dumping is a topic that will interest you.
Marine Dumping
By Tigerlily Peeters
Introduction
Imagine you have been waiting all year to go to the beach and when you get there it’s not really how you imagined it. All you see is an ocean full of trash. That is our future ocean because of marine dumping. Marine dumping is a very tragic type of water pollution, it can harm plants, animals, humans microorganisms and much more. Marine dumping is when trash winds up in any type of water. Oceans, lakes, rivers, streams creeks and much much more. But how it gets there is very embarrassing. When you think about throwing things away you think it’s harmless, “How can one piece of trash hurt the environment?” When you throw trash on the ground in your neighborhood or even at the beach it will eventually end up in the ocean or another body of water. Then if you don’t notice and don’t pick it up it will probably just sit there until it rains. Then when it does rains it leads into a river, stream, or creek which leads to a lake which will lead to an ocean. Then it all piles up on the ocean and makes trash island and pollutes the water. Marine dumping effects humans too. For instance, if a little fish eats a piece of plastic then a big fish eats him and gets affected then we eat that fish and we eat the plastic and get sick. Overall, marine dumping is a very severe type of water pollution. How does marine dumping happen?
Causes
Marine dumping can be caused by many things. The most common reason for marine dumping is littering. When you litter anywhere outside it eventually leads to the ocean. Then piles up on the ocean and that makes up trash island. Trash island is a section in the ocean full of trash. Marine dumping can also be caused by dumping trash deliberately (on purpose) into an ocean, river, lake, stream, exetera. If you dump trash into any lake stream exetera you can get in big trouble with the government because it is illegal to do that, thanks to the E.P.A. (Environmental, Protection, Agency). Marine dumping is a part of the human impact on water. Marine dumping has many causes including littering and dumping trash into the water on purpose. But what does marine dumping do?
Effects
Here is the saddest part of water pollution, what happens, why it’s pollution. There are many different types of pollution marine dumping has some of the most sad and terrible effects. Marine dumping effects the ocean and other bodys of water. It pollutes the water by filling it with trash. When you fill a body of water with trash it isn’t healthy any more and it isn’t as pretty. It will also hurt the animals and plants that live in that water. It will also hurt us. There are many many examples of the effects on marine dumping but I am only telling you a few. For example, so many sea turtles have died because of trash especially plastic bags that go into the ocean and then they get trapped in the trash. The sea turtles that get trapped are mostly baby sea turtles. The more trash the less sea turtles soon they could die out all because of trash in the ocean that’s not supposed to be there. Another example is when little fish eat plastic they die then when all the little fish die then the bigger fish that used to eat them won’t have anything to eat then they die and then the fish or other animal species dies because they don’t have anything to eat and so on. Overall the marine dumping is full of very terrible consequences. How can we prevent marine dumping?
Preventing
It is very hard to prevent marine dumping since it has already occured. Before you attempt to prevent marine dumping you have to remember yourself not to drop trash on the ground and also not to throw many plastics or other thing that can be recycled in the trash to often, then you can start worrying about other people. You can prevent marine dumping by making informative papers, making signs, telling your family, and also when your at a person’s house remind them about marine dumping. Now that you know all about preventing you probably want to know how to solve marine dumping. How do you solve marine dumping.
Solutions
Now that you know all of the problems all because of marine dumping yo You can solve marine dumping by picking up trash in your community, help remind people to not litter, make signs and more. To solve a big problem like marine dumping you have to let other people know. Tell everyone you know so you can all help solve marine dumping and other types of water pollution. So overall to solve marine dumping you can help out in your community.
Conclusion
Marine dumping is something that is very dangerous to all bodys of water and the animals that live in it. Marine dumping is not good for the environment and we have to do something about it. I hope that this informative article has inspired you to take action in solving the problem marine dumping. In conclusion, marine dumping is a terrible type of water pollution. If we pollute all our water there is no more water for us for the animals, plants, all life water is all connected.
Extras:
Garbage Island
Garbage island is a very big water pollutant. Garbage island is also known as The Pacific Garbage Patch, and Trash Island. Garbage Island is made up of trash that somehow got there. It is twice the size of Texas, 9 feet deep, and weighs 7 million tons. That is a lot. I hope someday that the Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t a thing anymore. That is something I think everyone should work up to. In conclusion Garbage Island is something we need to work on solving.
Terrible Problems
Some of the terrible accidents that will be included in this paragraph result in death, so if you have a fear of death or do not like hearing about death please skip this paragraph. Accident 1, lake Erie caught on fire many times. It killed a lot of the animals that lived in that lake died. You may think “How can a lake catch on fire?” Even though lakes are made of water fires natural enemy the lake still caught on fire wich in fact helped the clean water act to happen. The lake caught on fire because of factories dumping oil into the lake and citizens joined in too. Oil and water do not mix, so the oil just sat on top of the lake and one spark set the whole lake on fire. Also you know how I keep saying that animals die, well there are five animals I can list that are the most endangered right now. The first one is sea turtles. As many of you know sea turtles will eat the trash and get sick. They can also get stuck in the trash. The next ones on the list are seals and sea lions. You may not think that they are actually at risk of dying out, but they are. Seals or sea lions can get caught in fishing nets. Their fins can also get snagged on fishing lines. The third animals are seabirds. When they are hunting fish they skim the water picking up plastic on the way. The next animals are fish. When the fish breathe in water through their gills they also will breathe in plastics which can be very harmful to their breathing system. The last endangered species are dolphins and whales. Whales and dolphins get caught in huge fishing nets and then they won’t be able to swim anymore and then they will drown. As you can see there are some tragic problems because of marine dumping.
Degrading
You may be thinking why is there a paragraph about degrading in a paper about marine dumping. Well when you read about how long these things take to degrade you have to think about when all that is in the ocean or another body of water how they have to sit in that water polluting it for weeks, months, even years. There are so many thing that are put in dumps that take a long time to degrade. These are usually things that can be recycled. Instead of just doing the extra work of going outside to put these things in the recycling bin they put it in the garbage bin. Workers have reported the time it takes for these things to be degraded. Cardboard takes two weeks to degrade. Newspaper takes six weeks to degrade. Photodegradable will sit there for six weeks. Then foam will sit there for sixty years. Styrofoam is even worse, it takes eighty years. Then we have aluminum which takes two hundred years. Plastic packaging takes four hundred years. Glass takes so long to degrade no one knows exactly how long. I hope this paragraph has encouraged you to take action in recycling all those things.
Other types of water pollution
- 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
- Nuclear waste
Marine - Found in, is, our produced by the sea.
Degrade - Break down.
Prevent - Keep from happening
Effect - A change because of an action
Pollution - Presence of something harmful or poisonous
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