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Keep Our Oceans Healthy and Happy


Today I took a nice walk in the open space by my house and I got to play in the mud and it was so fun!!! I also collected 2 soda bottles and a beer bottle. When I was riding my bike up the hill I saw all of these packing peanuts:
 (austinmaterialsmarketplace.org)
It made me so sad to see a dozen or so styrofoam death balls scattered on the ground. Why death balls you may ask? Well the styrofoam travels down these drains:
(klorotechpavers.com)

 Into the ocean or lake or creek or river. Demonstrated by these diagrams: 
 (www.biocleanenvironmental.com)
(www.biocleanenvironmental.com)

 Then the trash gets to a body of water:
(oceanleadership.org)


And camouflages into food

(www.wildernessclassroom.com)

 Finally the trash gets eaten by animals that live wherever the trash was deposited. Turtles think the plastic looks like jellyfish. Many animals die from suffocation. 


 (coastalcare.org)

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(www.mnn.com)
It is all very sad and horrible. But the brilliant thing is that we can stop this execution of animals. How you may ask? Well, read this infographic and meet me at the bottom! 
infographic - plastic truth

 Hi again! You can learn learn learn and educate educate educate. Set up a table and tell people about what is going on, (I did that in 8th grade about the plastic bag ban!)  create leaflets, and do the things listed above. We all have the power to change the world. By picking up that one peanut it may be one less animal killed. 

 More resources: 

 http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/what-is-the-great-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch
http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/get-involved/
http://www.hannahsprojectrainbow.com/search?q=plastic&updated-max=2015-10-12T10:50:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=1&by-date=false
http://www.hannahsprojectrainbow.com/2014/02/plastic-bags.html
http://www.hannahsprojectrainbow.com/2012/05/what-to-do-with-styrofoam.html

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