Imagine you are on vacation on a cruise and having a great time and you look around and you see the ocean is covered with waste. According to Discovermagazine.com there are patches of waste present in the middle of the oceans. The depths that can accommodate heights, double as Mount Everest. According to climatechange.com if we do not act immediately, it is going to affect our environment, we are going to experience extreme climate. There would be no clear distribution of the seasons. Deforestation leads to lack of oxygen in the environment, leading to no production of oxygen finally leading to extension of many species. Refusing to recycle the waste materials would poison the food and water we use, leading to our death. We will be the cause …show more content…
Pollution is the main product of waste constantly being created. They are many negative effects of not recycling, ranging from environment to economy. Firstly, the pollution of the environment is due to improper disposal of waste. Wastes materials are improperly disposed into rivers, leading to pollution. Some countries do not have the advanced technology to treat large amounts of water before letting it back in the river leading to water pollution. It has negative effects on the economy because certain items are expensive to create compared to their cost of being recycled. Therefore, it will be less expensive to recycle. Without recycling, the world will be full of waste. Apart from that, there will be depletion of important materials because it is constantly used to produce new materials instead of using recycled materials. Furthermore, global warming will become even serious, especially when trees are being harvested for production of papers, causing the air temperature to rise. Refusing to recycle just does not affect the humans, but also the animals in many …show more content…
Many times the countries dump the waste in the ocean, causing an imbalance in the aquatic life. They have been reports from ocean lifeguards that due to the dumping of the waste materials in the ocean causes an increase in irritation among the marine animals. Life guards have also reported that they have lost many spies of fish due to the change in their habitat and also the poisonous liquids seeping and mixing with the ocean water polluting the water. The duping of waste materials in the ocean has created small island of waste in the middle of the oceans turning the beautiful ocean into a poison’s body of water. While dumping the waste materials on the ground can pollute the ground and lead to ground poisoning. Ground poisoning occurs when the ground is regularly in contact with poison’s materials, leading to the ground water being polluted and the land losing its fertility causing a great damage to the economy. When the land is less fertile there is no vegetation leading to droughts and the deaths of many animals. Due to lack of recycling many grounds have been made into dumping grounds, prior to that it was a natural habitat for many animals. Because of this many animal species migrated from their home to other places, causing a natural imbalance in the ecosystem. The way you can solve these problems are not very hard and you do not have to go out of the way to solve
Harmfull Effects of Ocean dumping include animals in danger with trash in their habitat, as well as contamination of public waters.
First of all, we have too much trash in the ocean. Don’t believe me yet? Well, we have a huge pool of trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This big pool of trash is bigger
The ocean is an abundant source of life. It is home to thousand of different creatures, provides a great source of food, and provides the earth with about one half of the oxygen needed to sustain life. (National Geographic) Pollution especially plastic, is a catastrophic problem. Ironically plastic, which is a material designed to last forever is generally used for things we tend to throw away. Every year about one hundred to two hundred billion pounds of plastic are manufactured. Only 31% of that plastic is actually recycled. Biomass packaging estimates 10% of that plastic ends up in the ocean annually. About 20% of it coming from ships and other platforms, and the other 80% coming from land derived sources, such as international garbage dumping, winds or tides either way it finds its way to the ocean.(Biomass Packaging Co., et al)
Our oceans take a large beating every day by the extremely large amount of pollution humans produce. Our society easily dumps their waste into the oceans to dispose of the excessive amount of garbage, sewage, and chemicals, but this small and simple solution is creating an even bigger problem. The way humans dispose of their wastes is causing the death of our beloved marine life. Not only are we killing off our animals, our food source, and our resources, we are also minimizing our usable water. By having a better understanding of the problem on the severe dumping, it will be easier to find ways to help minimize the pollution that is going into the ocean.
Oceans are the largest water bodies on the planet Earth. Over the last few decades, surplus human activities have severely affected the marine life on the Earth’s oceans. Ocean pollution, also known as marine pollution, is the proliferation of harmful substances in the water and is the primary cause of dead for many species whom live in there. Therefore, ocean pollution has various ways to enters to the ocean such as: sewage, large scale of oil spills and littering.
Can you imagine an ocean full of trash and plastic drifting effortlessly through the water? Sea creatures are mistaking the trash as food and eating it, consequently they are shortly after dying from consuming too much of the detritus. The marine life is suffering because their home is always full of trash, therefore it’s being contaminated. Can this really happen to the environment around us? Have people ever thought about this horrible problem and wanted to do something to stop it? This is what our world is facing right now. Progressively debris is ending up in the water, harming the beautiful blue ocean in addition to killing the sea life. No one is thinking about where their trash is going and how much it’s harming the innocent marine
It was thought a while back that no matter how much trash we poured into the ocean the result would be inconsequential. However, when we examine the coastlines, swirling patches of garbage in the middle of the ocean, and the fact that there is enough trash added to the ocean each year to circle it four times (“22 Facts about Plastic Pollution”) it is obvious we thought wrong. With billions of pounds of plastic already in the ocean today, (ECO360 Plastic Garbage 1) we’ve already dug ourselves in a deep hole but that doesn’t mean it’s too late.
We are so ignorant in regards to how we should handle this problem instead of finding clean useful alternatives we've mainly chosen to burn it releasing harmful chemicals in the air of dumping it somewhere letting it build up over time. The amount of trash build up in this country is ridiculous but i mostly blame the amount of people who ignore the trash build up in our society. Our only solution is that we find more eco friendly and more safe ways into disposing trash. Our world as we know it is heavily increasing in population with that follows our
Many people believe that we should not recycle anymore, but this is not the case. We, the people of the world, need to continue to recycle because we do not want our children to grow up in a world where there are no certain species of animals due to recycling failures. We also do not want our children to grow up thinking that it is okay that they throw their garbage on the ground, and not have to pick it up. We need to teach our children that they need to take care of the earth that they are living on, because they only get one. Recycling is one of the most beneficial environmental issues that we have here on this earth. Recycling saves energy, limits pollution and supports several environmental factors of the economy. “In 2003, the savings from recycling 54 billion aluminum cans exceeded the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil- or the amount of gas the U.S. uses in one day,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA estimates that 200 million gallons of used oil are not disposed of properly, and if we were to dispose the oil properly then we could keep the oil from polluting the ground and the fresh water source. According to E. Takatori, “… While on-going societal regulation treats material recycling as the dominant cycle, the properties of recycled plastic remain the most port
...ic and get ill from it. All this trash can kill the mammals in the ocean even if it’s just floating on top of the water. It’s still harmful to them and humans. It can kill, suffocate or poison the mammal. If humans decide to go swimming in the ocean and choke on a piece of plastic that breaks into pieces and they open there mouth for some reason and get trash in their mouth they can choke and maybe die. Just because people like to put their trash anywhere they please.
Today's waters are constantly being treated like sewage dumps or trash cans. We use them as garbage cans every day polluting the water more and more. "Pollution is often by way of rivers, drains and outflow pipes." Causing an outflow of sewage into our ocean waters. This is not only affecting the community but also the marine life and other sea creatures living in the ocean." This pollution includes human sewage and domestic waste water, factory outflows of acids and poisonous metals, engine oil from roadside drains and garages, farm chemicals washed off the land by rain, building-site rubble, nuclear waste from power plants, and oil from wells, refineries, and tankers." Stating that most of today's waste is from factory or factory ran products that shouldn't be polluting the water
Solid waste pollution will always be an issue as long as human population increases everyday .solid waste is not only cause by household only, the industries as well have hand on environment pollution. And due to improper disposal system solid waste end up on the road. Solid waste have a huge effect on human life and can also cause death in animals as well, as people clean their houses everyday litter their trash everywhere this problem will not stop. But the most dangerous waste are those coming from the industries, because those waste end up in stream, rivers where it poisonous and have bad impact on the marine life. Industrial waste are the source of toxic metal and hazardous waste that effect soil characteristic and productivity of soil when dumped in ground. And the problem lies where some of the waste do not decompose. These solid waste are hazardous, Pesticides poisonous which is not health and life threatening to both humans and animals. People are very much aware of recycling to reduce pollution yet they still fail in doing so. Silt build in freshwater water ecosystems, caused by the unnecessarily agricultural activities smothers aquatic organisms. To reduce solid waste they should be recycled in such a way that do not harm the both the environment, water, air and human health. There are animals such as
Therefore, many countries in the developed world have adopted recycling policies for disposal Of waste. The benefits of the recycling process include the following. Maintaining the cleanliness of the environment in the first place from the damage of burying and burning the waste or leaving it exposed Reduce the pollution of sea, ocean and river waters from dumping solid waste, threaten marine life, and reduce groundwater pollution from the waste of
The United States produces “about 8.25 billion tons of solid wastes each year” (Russell 1). People do not realize the impact they have on our planet and environment. When people throw anything in the trashcan, they are contributing to the destruction of our planet. The number landfills in the United States are decreasing, but the amount and volume of waste being thrown into the new landfills is increasing (Russell 4). Because of this escalating amount of garbage, Methane which contributes to global warming is an outcome of these landfills (Russell 7). As a result, our planet is suffering because of this epidemic. The garbage being put in the landfills could be recycled, but not enough businesses, ...
On the other hand, some people feel that recycling should not be mandatory. Some people feel as if recycling is not always cost effective. Sometimes, there may be a need for new factories to process reusable materials. This could even create more pollution because of the cleaning, storage and transportation that takes place. Also, some people feel that recycled products may not last for long. Recycled materials are not always a reliable quality. The materials are mostly made up of trashed waste, which is why the products are cheap and last for a shorter period of time. Another reason why some people think it is not necessary to recycle is because there are unsafe and unhygienic recycling sites. Places like landfills, where all sorts of waste is dumped contribute to the spread of different diseases and other dangers caused by harmful chemicals and waste. People also think that r...