Why Is Plastic Pollution A Problem For Our Coastlines?

Why is plastic pollution a problem for our coastlines?

Do you like seeing sea animals caught up in plastic every year? Well that's what will happen if we keep throwing away our plastic in the wrong places. The plastic that we throw on the streets make their way to the drain, then it leads to lakes, rivers, estuaries and the sea. If we don’t put our plastic in the rubbish it can harm many animals as they will think its food.

Did you know that over 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enters the ocean each year? That plastic can get tangled around the throats and stomachs of marine mammals and can harm them. 

The more people fill the ocean with plastic, the less marine animals we’ll have. The generation of sea animals will be gone and the ocean will be filled with plastic rubbish. You can help stop this by collecting all the plastic you see laying around.

Plastic makes up 90% of the pollution on the ocean's surface so don't be lazy and drop your plastic. Do you want to be swimming in plastic?

Plastic takes over 450 YEARS based on what plastic it is. Did you know that there is 26.8 million tons of plastic in landfill? We need to recycle our plastic or you'll have plastic fish and chips for dinner.

Florence, Miiana, Ellenora,Leroy

This week for writing have been writing a explanation in groups. I was working with Florence, Leroy, Ellenora and I we all worked collaborative. Our explanation was why is plastic pollution a problem for our coastlines?. In our explanation we explained everything and used language features, which were, Present tense, simple, compound, and complex sentences, and many more. This was just a warm up before we have our tests and were gonna already know what to use in our explanation. My group and I did a really good job on this explanation and gave reasons why or we should be picking up plastic rubbish. A explanation a reason why or something should be the way it is. If you don't pick up plastic rubbish would you like plastic fish and chips for dinner?

Explanation: Should NZ ban plastic straws?

Plastic straws are really harmful because it harms the sea animals. I think we should ban plastic straws because there are some toxic chemicals in these plastic straws which can poison sea animals, it can get stuck in turtles and birds noses so which is why we should ban plastic straws from New Zealand. Sea creatures and animals won’t be able to digest their food, if they eat plastic straws.

Plastic straws are known to have harmful chemicals in them. Would you let your family put harmful chemicals in their mouths? I think this is not only dangerous but also very unhealthy. This chemical can make these beautiful sea creatures passed away and their will be no more sea creatures surviving anymore, because of what people are dropping on the ground. There has been 65,000 plastic straws that has been wasted and not been reused again. Because these sea creatures won’t survive if there was still plastic straws around. Not only but plastic straws are really really dangerous to the sea creatures, which is not good for them.

We should ban plastic straws since all plastic does is never biodegrade and it causes problems. We should at least pick up rubbish that are plastic and put it into the bin because one day some sea creatures might see it in the water and might think that it’s food. Everyone could get off their bottoms and be picking up the plastic rubbish instead of having our sea creatures dying in the water with people having no brains, how would you feel if there was no sea creatures in the water? We should do this by picking up plastic rubbish and putting it into the rubbish bin. Because what would happen if someone passed away because of having a plastic straw to harm them, how would you feel?

Everyone in New Zealand and in other countries need to try and keep these marine animals alive and not dying because of plastic straws that are ruining their lives. And also think about all the harm these sea creatures are getting into. Its very sad for these creatures to die because of these harmful plastic straws.

I think this is why we should be picking up the waste of plastic that are on the ground and put it in the bin, cause if we don’t there’s gonna be a bigger problem going on with the sea creatures and we're gonna have no more sea animals to swim with.