Essay On How To Keep Oceans Clean

The oceans are a very important part of our environment. About 50-80 percent of all life on earth is estimated to live in the oceans. Not many people even consider how important the ocean is to the environment. People worry about cutting down trees in the forest because of how it affects the animal's habitat, but what about the animals in the ocean? They need help with keeping their habitat safe and clean as well.

Keeping the oceans clean is a lot of time overlooked by other environmental problems.

I can’t see how anything can be more important than keeping our oceans clean. Trash going into the ocean is such a major problem it is causing the ocean to be full of it. The sizes of these spots are estimated in size because the rate of growth annually makes it hard to measure. It is said the size is estimated to be as big as twice the state of Texas. This is a major problem for marine life, not only because of the size but because it is there at all.

The world’s biggest landfill isn’t on land at all it is in the oceans. The largest problem is most of the trash that has accumulated in the ocean is plastic. It has been estimated that 90% of all the trash is plastic. The issue with plastic is that it is not biodegradable,

Recycling plastic bottles and bags can help tremendously. The recycling motto reduces, reuse, recycle really is the way people all need to do it. Water bottles can be reused a few times then put it in the recycling bin instead of buying multiple bottles of water per day and simply throwing them away. I know it is much easier to just throw them in the trash because recycling takes extra time out of the day to drive to a center, but it really is worth it. Another opportunity to help reduce plastic ocean trash can be when shopping. There are cloth bags that can be reused over and over again. They cost a little more but the few dollars spent can keep some animals safe from a plastic