Category: Ocean Pollution

For many years, ocean pollution has been a problem, but recently it has been getting worse. In the past 60 years, a staggering amount of waste has entered the ocean each year. The products people produce eventually end up in the ocean which is caused by dumping and runoff through drains. The main causes of…

Today, society is experiencing, first hand, one of the most unprecedented and ongoing environmental crisis; ocean pollution. This worldwide catastrophe is caused greatly by the production of plastic products and the need for oil or petroleum. Although these issues affect many variables, oceans are seeing the worst of it. Every year, millions of tons of…

The oceans are arguably the most important ecosystem on our planet. They clean the air, contain a majority of wildlife, and feed millions of people. We are destroying our planet by polluting the ocean, we are destroying our own livelihood. Whenever we pollute the ocean, we are killing everyone, whether they contribute to it or…

Our ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet and it is essential to life here on earth. They are home to everything from the biggest blue whales to the smallest microscopic algae and despite their importance to our survival, we are bombarding them with over 8 million tonnes of plastic every year. From…