Zero plastic

Salutation: 

Oceans form a larger mass and occupy a larger area than the region that is occupied by land in the world. Additionally, the sheer size of oceans accommodates a larger number and diversity of species than would ever be accommodated on land. Evolutionary science points to the oceans as the source of early life, yet pollution and climate change is threatening the scope and survival of this state of diversity today and into the future. 

The sheer size of oceans is now cumbered with floating plastic that is clogging out life from the landmasses. There are more than 300 million tons of plastic produced across the world every year (IUCN, 2018). 8 million of these makes its way into oceans and has now formed up to 80 percent of marine debris. The presence of such debris has devastating effects like a sore and actual adverse impact on the ability of ocean life to exist and thrive (Lang, 2018). 

Today, there is a weighty burden in the amount of non-biodegradable material that is floating around in oceans. Currently, about a quarter a million tons of plastic are floating around the oceans in more than 5 trillion individual pieces (Eriksen et al., 2014). The pieces sometimes clog together and form a continuous sea of covering and waste that blocks out any other activity or forms of life that exist in a location. 

The injuries, deaths and adverse effect on safety, quality and health are reason to intervene and find working solutions to the problem (Eriksson & Burton, 2003). Effort in policy would help to encourage recycling, reuse and other legally binding measures to mitigate the overall level of plastic pollution in the oceans. The impact of pollution is devastating in the way that it now threatens the sheer sanctity of life in the oceans. More is doable through efforts that focus on addressing the problem.