THE LUNGS OF OUR OCEAN
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About this Article
I can guess you already have an idea about what this article will be. Another boring informational text that will repetitively go through the same facts and pictures you have been exposed to since elementary about this issue. However, what if I told you this was not one of those articles, instead, a maze of resources that all link to one base; a documentary you need to watch and defuse regarding an urgent matter. I have taken the time to create this website to prove to you that there is much more to this crisis than what is talked about, and "A Plastic Wave" the documentary goes far and beyond the seeds of the epidemic we are dealing with today.
The documentary I am highlighting is more powerful than any of the many videos we see every day. This video follows an ordinary father of two, with an ordinary job and hobbies, which finds himself affected by the overwhelming plastic waste in his home beach. He decides to take a trip to Mumbai, India and inform himself of the scientific side and feels concerned as he gets heartbroken by the situation there. It is easy to feel identified and inspired to see how by doing so little we can change so much more than what we thought.
In this article, you will find all the way from experts and industry professionals going deeper than you imagined, a journey that will take your breath away and open your eyes. My main objective is to break down the ideology that many of you reading this have of what plastic is doing to our earth. Most importantly show you how perspectives and suggestions for solutions vary within people living in different countries and conditions.
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Issue at Hand
As we follow Dave Muir in his journey of discovering the essences of plastic and how it ends up in our oceans we are introduced to reliable experts and valuable facts.
Furthermore, this waste is coming from the less developing countries that are having major trouble in cleaning their cities and funding organizations to take care of the issue, like in many cases are left behind by their governments.
Most importantly, the impact that it is having on the environment is irreversible and plastic is staying around for too long, as it increases in mass and production (regarding supply and demand of our society), our future generations are jeopardized.
What can be done now?
Is there really a solution that we cannot see?
I want my kids to grow up having a clean beach every day
Dave Muir (2018)
One of the essential things that this article covers which many others don't even mention is the real origin of the problem: plastics. Sarah Nelms talks to us about how she has repeatedly found pieces of plastic in dolphins intestines and even whales, affecting the overall food chain in severe ways.
The main point she tries to make is that the bigger things we are able to remove from the beaches are probably not as dangerous as the microscopic plastics fragmented into smaller and smaller pieces from their original product. Microscopic plastic is a low-density polyethylene commonly used to make carrier bags and plastic containers. These decompose into a compact piece that is not visible to the naked eye, and the smaller they are, the more bioavailable they are to a wider range of animals.
It is important to notice how the documentary does an excellent job in highlighting this scientific aspect of plastic pollution. As many commonly mistake the more visual and obvious parts to be the problem when in reality, we are not able to get rid of them as easily, as plastics are able to not decompose for more than hundreds of years.
What will this mean in the future?