Plastic is truly a remarkable thing, it can be used to make spaceships, replace bones, we can make plastic bags that weigh as much as a nickel but hold up to eight kilograms. Plastic also unlike many other materials, doesn't rust or rot, and can last for centuries even though most of the time we don't need it for that long. Something I learned from this video is 10% of our plastic waste ends up in the ocean, the big pieces of plastic in the ocean end up forming into tiny little pieces from the suns heat rays. Even though the pieces of plastic are tiny they are still just as durable, making them very hard to get rid of, so they end up spreading out. This is very bad because then bigger species end up thinking the plastic is food, then they die, also bacteria forms on the plastic hurting the sea animals around them. The small pieces of plastic are homes to harmful microorganisms, so when one animal eats it, and another animal eats that one, the harmful organisms are being passed throughout the food chain. The significance of this video is, this is a huge problem that we haven’t been paying much attention to, we depend on the ocean for a lot of things and all we are doing is polluting it. This is killing the sea animals that many people hurt, making them toxic. A question I have now is, what can we do? There is already so much plastic in every single ocean, is there any way we can get reverse the effects of the problem we have caused? This video was made by MinuteEarth, if you would like to watch it, it is down below.
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