Beach Pollution Dbq

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Source 4: A few reasons why beach pollution is happening is because Trash and other materials that beaches rivers, bays, estuaries and oceans eventually wash up on our beaches. It includes plastic bags, bottles and cans, cigarette filters, bottle caps, and lids.Any trash that is not thrown away and is just thrown in the beach and is in the sand can eventually go into the beach and make the water dirty.A lot of people just throw the trash in the water because they do not care.Some people are too lazy to go throw it away in the trash can.

Source 5: Everybody agrees that beach pollution is bad because it causes a lot of bad things.It causes dogs to swallow things that they didn’t mean to and sometimes they lick something that is bad and they

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