Ocean Pollution is a huge problem that is often overlooked because of the vast amount of water that covers the earth ocean that we have. Although Ocean pollution does not directly affect most of us in our daily day to day lives, eventually it will catch up to us and the effects will be more serious and evident in our everyday lives. With most of the garbage floating around in the ocean being plastic, it isit’s pretty clear that something needs to be done with plastic, like producing less plastic products. Ocean pollution is a huge problem that can be solved by doing different things to prevent plastic and other waste items from being disposed in the ocean and other bodies of water. producing less plastic products.
Ocean pollution has been a problem for a very long time, but is often overlooked because the effects are not sudden. Many laws and regulations have been put in place such as the marine protection and ocean dumping act which was passed in 1972. This act prohibits the dumping of any material into the ocean that can endanger human or marine life. Until the 1970’s, garbage was intentionally dumped into the ocean. Although these laws are supposed to stop us from illegal dumping, it obviously has not and the issue has continuously gotten worse and worse. Another act that was passed was the
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When people don’t use plastic products there is a much less likely chance of them polluting. Some examples on how you could help would be to stop buying plastic water bottles and just drink tap water. If everyone made an effort to cut back on a few plastic items that they usually purchase or use a day, there would be way less pollution which would eventually lead to a much cleaner ocean. As we can’t really do anything about the current state of the ocean such as the great pacific garbage patch, we can help limit the damage by producing less plastic and by purchasing less plastic based