Chapter 5:

 

I go to the beach almost every weekend over the summer and you wouldn't believe how much trash I found as I walked around. In this chapter, Humes discusses how plastic is harming our oceans. From the start of the book, he introduces captain, Mary Crowley who sailed on a ship named Kaisei, which mean "ocean planet" in japanese. Because I thought the sea was the cleanest place on earth that is trash free, but I was wrong. The sea is actually worst than the land. As Crowley continued her sail along the coast of California and Hawaii she identifies this nasty gooey material that is believed to be plastic that has been broken down to little particles. How nasty is that!? Humans and animals and other creatures have been swimming in this gunk and not even notice it. The plastic in the ocean is being absorbed into the lanterns fish bodies. That is dangerous because fish is in our food chain. Lantern fish are being eaten by bigger fish, which is being into by other bigger fishes then sold at the stores for us to cook and then we consume it. Now we have harmful toxins in our body. I know that trash is everywhere but I could not believe that there are islands of trash in the seas called gyres. Not to mention that there more than 1, but 5. They are located in the South and North Atlantic and the North and South Pacific. Humes says that putting all the trash together in the sea makes up about 40 percent of the ocean. We might at we create another country with the trash. All we need to do is put dirt over it and call it home. I know it wont be easy but at least we would be using the trash as something rather than nothing. I feel like it is impossible for people to stop them from throwing trash into the ocean because they don't know anything about it. This has made me open my eyes to our serious trash problem and has made me want to go out and inform the rest of the world what is happening.