Cleaning Up Ocean Plastic is Not Useful

Chiara Abel

Mr. Roddy

IHSS

January 24, 2022



Cleaning Up Ocean Plastic is Not Useful



The article I read was about how trying to clean up the plastic in the ocean is useless. About 17.6 billion pounds of new plastic is going into the ocean each year. The rate that we are cleaning up this plastic in the ocean has made it basically impossible to ever clean up all the plastic in the ocean. The article included a transcript from an interview with Max Liboiron. In the interview, he talks about an analogy which is, if the bathtub was overflowing would you a) turn off the tap, or b) get a mop. The answer is to turn off the tap and then proceed to get a mop. By using this analogy Max Liboiron tells us that to effectively clean up the ocean plastic you would need to stop the production of plastic. Although, at this point, it would be very hard to stop the production of plastic because it is used for everything now. Another reason why trying to clean up the plastic in the ocean is useless is because at the moment we don't have anywhere to store the plastic that we clean up so eventually it all just goes back to the ocean. Even though it is useless to try to clean up all the plastic in the ocean in some places like shorelines, stormwater drains, and sewage outfalls it is essential to clean up the plastic. As private citizens trying to reduce the amount of plastic we use is a good thing to do but it doesn't make a huge impact because of the big companies that still use plastic. To do something about the amount of plastic being used, we would need to hold major companies like Coca-Cola and ExxonMobil accountable. The government has been involved in this issue, they have a program called the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA has ten offices that work to protect and preserve the ocean. The EPA regularly evaluates ocean disposal and works with other programs like it to try and regulate what is being disposed of into the ocean to safeguard human and animal health.




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