#oceanlifematters

I am making progress, the kind that can still use some improvement though. Well the good news is I finally remembered to bring my reusable water bottle, which I have been forgetting to bring for the past few days, due to a headache thinking about how I can possibly reduce my carbon footprint, my main focus plastic. At lunchtime, today, I stood on the line waiting to collect my food and hoping, really praying that there will be something I can eat, so I can avoid having a peanut butter and jelly sandwich wrapped in plastic, or a grilled cheese sandwich, also wrapped in plastic.

 Unfortunately, with my luck, there was beef burgers served for lunch today. I thought to myself, how wonderful is that? Peanut butter and jelly sandwich wrapped in plastic it is. The only reason I avoided that beef burger was for religious purposes, because I really can’t eat it! Anyway, according to “AFC- How Plastic Bags Affect Wildlife,” it states “An autopsy found that a whale’s stomach was tightly packed with 6 m2 of plastic, including many plastic check- out bags.” This is how we treat our animals and creatures, by throwing our unwanted garbage and trash, that ends up in their digestive system, causing them to eventually die!!!

 It hurts me a lot because I want to be a veterinarian when I become old enough, and I’ll be terrified if I end up hearing that a cause to an animal’s death was the fact that people throw away many harmful items, not caring about the impact afterward. So I’m trying and everyone reading should too. It’s really sad but doing something can change that.

The image below has a significance of showing what happens when a turtle is on a hunt for it’s food. Jellyfish, or plastic bag, the turtle doesn’t see a difference:

This is exactly what I was saying! These plastic shopping bags also harm us! They block drainage of water, causing floods in parts of the world. They have a lot to do with where those unexpected floods come from! In the article “Environmental Impact. Effects, Dangers of Plastic Bags,” it states, “Build ups of huge quantities of plastic bags are well known to block local drainage systems, especially in developing countries. For example, the floods in Bangladesh 20 years ago were partially attributed to blockages in drainage systems from plastic shopping bags.” I know right now you’re probably thinking, well what does that have to do with reducing use of plastic now? That won’t help now, that was 20 years ago! However, if you were to say that, I would 100 percent  disagree with you, because as I had said before, we can do something to stop things, such as floods, from reoccurring. Hopefully we can make a difference, even a small change in how we treat our world and animals by reducing the amount of plastic we use, by reducing our carbon footprint!