Plastics in the Ocean Affecting Human Health.
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide of junk.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of trash floating in the ocean where there is a high density of garbage because of the Pacific Gyre. “Though their name suggests rafts of bobbing refuse, the patches are instead areas with high concentrations of trash — mostly wee bits of plastic particles that have degraded from larger pieces of litter such as water bottles.The floating waste is composed of very small pieces and is similar to a “plastic soup”. It corresponds to the area, possibly, twice the USA (chaskor.ru). Charles Moore, the American oceanographer, believes that in this region turns about 100 million tones of floating stuff (Greenberg, Nell 1).
Plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean is at a critical level. As more and more plastic bags, bottles, micro-plastics, and other plastic materials are thrown into the sea, the largest body of water on Earth is being pushed to the brink of destruction.Plastic soup containers are high-value finds, paying 20 pesos (38 cents) a kilogram. Siena sorts and sells his load to a junk shop owned by his uncle, who trucks the waste to recycling plants on.
Humans invented plastic and animals are harmed by it. They eat it, they get caught in it, or get sick because of it. Plastic pollution occured so rapidly that animals were unable to adjust their behaviour around this new material.
