Water Pollution Is Affecting Marine Life

The ocean is a beautiful part of the Earth that is home to a large variety of Marine life like plants, animals, and other organisms. Organisms that can not live anywhere else are surviving with what they have but it is destroyed due to trash. Beaches and island, are amazing tourist destinations that help an economy to improve or a beautiful place to live are also being destroyed by trash. Marine littering is what is destroying both ocean and beaches by creating the cause of the destruction, making marine littering and pollution an extremely important issue that needs a drastic solution. Water pollution or marine littering has been affecting marine life due to trash being thrown into the ocean without caring or thinking about the problem that

Beaches that were once a paradise are now a destination no man wants to visit. Islands that are home to beautiful creatures are being forgotten and the economy of that community is being destroyed due to all the trash being transported via ocean waves. Elle Hunter a writer for The Guardian wrote a newspaper article about Henderson Island, which is a small abandoned island in the eastern South Pacific Ocean that could have been a beautiful tourist destination or a useful land to live in but instead it is destroyed due to the trash created by populate cities being moved by ocean waves into the shorelines of Henderson Island. Hunter explains that Henderson Island has “the highest density of anthropogenic debris recorded anywhere in the world, with 99.8% of the pollution plastic” and can soon increase more if the ocean keeps depositing trash into its shoreline(Hunter). If all the trash being produced would be deposited to its correct location, means that no trash would be able to reach the ocean or if more people recycle, Henderson Island might have a chance to recover and become a beautiful destination to live in or visit. It may seem impossible to stop this problem, but it does not hurt to try to do the right thing and recycle more and help discover more beautiful places to live

Tara John’s TIME Magazine “Ways to Rid the World 's Oceans of Plastic Trash” explain how companies and other organizations or are trying to decrease the amount of trash that is affecting marine life by recycling it and using the trash to built products. In his article, John explains how “ Dell is beginning to create laptop packaging recycled from the litter found on Haitian beaches” which is not only helping the environment by recycling it is clean a land that can be useful (John). The book Marine Litter: A Global Challenge by Ellik Adler, L. Jeftic, and Seba B. Sheavly is about the effects that are caused by marine littering and how organizations all around the world are trying to end it. In the book, the authors have a section about the international problem that is marine littering by saying that “since 1986, the International Coastal Cleanup, has cultivated hundreds of thousands of volunteers and organizers in 132 countries” to help control the issue by clean the areas being affected (Adler 189). The contribution that companies and organization are doing to end marine litter has improved but the solution is still that it is up to the community to end this