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| School HW |
Dear Mr. Donald J. Trump,
There is a problem the size of Texas in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).
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First things first, the GPGP has originated from plastic human waste. If people
are to stop this the first step is to reduce, reuse, compost and recycle. Start
by reducing the amount of plastic used and in its place use decompostable
materials.
Second, the amount of plastic found in a Laysan’s Albatross chick’s stomach is an
unbelievable sum, 30 bottle caps in
the average corpse. Many species of marine life are dying and this is very
important to me as I would like to be a marine biologist. Soon there won’t be
any biology to marine.
And third, in some areas the ratio of plastic to zooplankton
is 6 to 1. The worst part is zooplankton is the base of the ocean’s food chain.
Last but not least, plastic is being eaten by fish. When
people eat the fish, we are eating small particles of garbage. Reduce the
amount of fish eaten, reduce the amount of plastic eaten.
To sum t up, the unchecked growth of the GPG will lead to
major complicitiation in the ocean’s ecosystem and possibly an increase in the current
extinction rate.
