Video: 16 shocking photo-proofs of dire ocean pollution
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Every year, the world's oceans end up with at least an additional 8 million tons of plastic. The amount of debris that already covers the surface and is in the skin of the ocean water is not even quantifiable. Everything that we throw into landfills - from bottle caps, plastic dishes to various tools - sooner or later ends up in the water and kills the fish and animals that inhabit the oceans and seas.
When animals or fish see plastic floating in the water column, they sometimes mistake it for food and eat it. No stomach is capable of digesting such food, and therefore, when there is already too much of such debris inside the abdomen, the living creature begins to slowly and painfully die. Abandoned fishing nets also become traps for many aquatic inhabitants. Often, an animal is simply not able to get out of such a trap, and it either suffers all its life, or soon simply dies.
Sadly, no one bothered to calculate what the extent of the pollution really is and how many animals die each year from ocean pollution, but a small study was conducted in 2015 that found at least 44,000 cases reported in the press that described animal deaths from the ocean. behind floating plastic in water. These numbers are truly impressive.
A 20-year-old guy from Holland suggested a fairly simple, cheap, and most importantly, a very effective way of cleaning the world's oceans from plastic. How brilliant this idea is in its simplicity and effectiveness, read in our articledevoted to this problem.
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