Garbage patch paragraph

The Garbage Patch

Statement I am trying to convince you about the problem going on in the pacific ocean. This problem is named the great pacific garbage patch. You may wonder why this includes us and the reason for this is because we are the main problem. All the plastic that gets into the ocean comes from us, so it is our job to fix it.

State your point:

This garbage patch is the same size as 6 New zealands or 2 texas. This garbage patch is made up of tiny little microplastics so it's quite scary that all those little microplastics can take up that large of an area. Where does all the plastic come from? Majority of this plastic comes from land, 80% is from land and 20% comes from the fishing industry. This is how fishing nets and other plastics get into marine life. It is also estimated that there is around 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic floating around the patch.

Why it matters: This matters because all of this pollution is killing the majority of our marine life, 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are affected every year as well as many other species. Evenus humans aren’t necessarily safe from the dangers, microplastics have been found in the stomachs of nearly half of the most important species for global fisheries.

Evidence: We know that all this is happening because we see it affecting our marine life 100,000 mammals being affected every year. There was a whole movement based on not using plastic straws because of it affecting turtles however what happens to all the other plastics and fishing nets?. Also the garbage patch is estimated to weigh around 80,000 tonnes floating in an area of 1.6m square kilometers.

Sum up: To finish this off let's go over what we talked about, the garbage patch was created by us, is affecting our marine life, spans over 2 texas and majority of it is land based. This means that we need to make a positive change and stop harming our marine life.