Why Trying to Clean Up All the Ocean Plastic Is Pointless

India Riley

Mr.Roddy

IHSS

January 19, 2022

The article I read was about pollution and our oceans, and how our main focus at the moment may be irrelevant. The name of my article was what caught my eye, seeing as there's so many organizations working to get the plastic out of the oceans, I wouldn't expect someone to say not to. The article went into depth about how pointless it is to continue to pick up the plastics from our oceans, because we are creating much more than we are picking up. The author uses a very helpful analogy, "OK, you walk into your bathroom and your bathtub is overflowing. Do you, a) turn off the tap, or b) get a mop? I mean, eventually you’ll do both, but you better turn off that tap before you start mopping up or you will never stop mopping up and you will never catch up to the water spilling out.", the tap in the metaphor is the pollution going into he ocean, and the mop is us trying to pick it out. The author, Molly Taft, had stated that the only real solution to this is to stop all big plastic production, especially the production of micro plastics, which is the most detrimental part of plastic pollution. Micro plastics are fragments off any type of plastic less than 5mm in length, and because of their small size its almost impossible to see them which makes them so dangerous. The U.S. government fails to recognize the dangers of these harmful plastics and continues to make them, but the Canadian government has already started putting a stop to big corporations, like Exxon and Coca Cola, producing them. Texas has made little to no changes because mining oil and producing plastic is a main source of income to most. The issue is that once we stop producing them, we still have quadrillions of pounds of plastic in the oceans and on our beaches. We cant burn the plastics because that produces deadly toxins which go into our atmosphere and damages the ozone layer, and while we can reuse some of the plastics, most are damaged to the point of no return. I thoroughly believe that this concept should be more wide spread, so that people can understand that  what they are doing is truly killing our planet.

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