Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdhKl9r_fWY
This video describes the impacts that plastic garbage has had on the ocean and its species, as well as how these plastics effect them. The main species that this video focuses on is the albatross, a bird that uses the ocean as its provider for its main food sources. Plastic litters many of the beaches and surfaces of our oceans, which many of these animals mistaken as food. There is a certain area out in the Pacific Ocean that is known as the garbage patch, at this location you can find many plastics and other garbage floating at the surface of the water. It was found that the albatross flew over that area often and the research linked that to the deaths of many of these animals. When the researchers dissected the dead albatross they found many different types of plastic debris, this plastic debris would never exit their body and also displaces water which results in dehydration. The garbage patch is a big issue since the plastic that is currently in that area is never going to go away.
Plastic Plague. YouTube. YouTube, 14 Dec. 2009. Web. 26 Apr. 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdhKl9r_fWY.
I thought that this video was very informational and can make the viewer have feelings about the issue. You never realize how much plastic we actually don't discard correctly or the total plastic that gets discarded until some bigger issue results because of it. Now after watching this video, I finally realize the issue of plastic on the environment because another issue has arose because of the pollution of many different plastics.
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