An Essay On Plastic Bottles

Plastic Bottles

Plastic bottles is a major problem to earth 's environment, and ourselves. Only in the U.S around 1,500 plastic bottles are consumed every second. It makes our ecosystem get unbalanced because we are not using the resources we have sustainably. Due to this we are making water and land more dangerous for ourselves. But how? Well first of all we have to know that for an ecosystem to be healthy it has to be balanced which means that we do not have too much of something or too little. For example let 's take a food chain. Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers. Let’s put a number on them. There are 200 producers, 20 primary consumers and 2 secondary consumers. Well since all of the consumers have enough to eat this is counted as a balanced ecosystem. But now let’s say that we take away 10 of the secondary consumers. Due to this change now only one of the animals will be able to eat or

First of all plastic bottle most of the time have a plastic cap on them. Most people usually just throw it into the recycling with the plastic cap still on but one thing that not a lot of people consider is that plastic caps can not be recycled (in the US). As a result a lot of this caps end up in the ocean where different types of fishes may consume them which could lead to them dying or getting injured and fishes are also preys for other bigger fishes which mean that the fish that was the predator has now got the plastic that was in the prey. This can go on and on and to sum it up it turns into a cycle. There have been many animals that have been found dead because of this for instance, on the Hawaiian beach there was an Albatross found dead that had 119 plastic caps in it. The plastic caps came mostly from its preys like fish. Even big animals are killed due to this. On the North American beach a sperm whale was found dead with a plastic gallon bottle in it. The plastic bottle was stuck into its small