In are humanities and biology class we are learning about how clean are beaches are and how we can help it. One of my questions i am curious about is "How is trash on the beach effecting the ocean?" One website I looked at it gave some statistics about how much plastic bottles and other items are found in the ocean it said "the average American uses between 300 and 700 plastic bags every year." When people do not throw away their trash ends up on the beaches and into the ocean causing sea animal to mistakenly see them as food and eating it. Another website that talks about trash and pollution is pollution of the ocean by plastic and trash this website explains that fishing nets that get lost in ocean end up killing marine animals a process called "ghost fishing" and items that were for for fishing become traps for other animal.
Another question I am exploring is How dogs effect the beach. An article I was reading called Dog waste poses threat to water. Well it looks it does play a big role about how the oceans beaches are effected. Since most dog owners don't pick up their dogs mess it gets washed up into the ocean causing the oceans to be contaminated. Washed up fertilizer is also to blame for contaminated oceans and beaches.
This is just a few things i will be talking about, I will update some stuff in the upcoming weeks so feel free to come by and check it out.
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