Most Dangerous Items in the Ocean
Published by Can you believe eight million tons of garbage reaches the bottom of the sea everyday?
While we, human, look for more ways to make our lives easier, and consume what convenient for us, our planet is enduring the punishment. Every day, eight million tons of garbage reaches the sea around the globe. These rubbishes are all non-recyclable, and they are all from human activity!
Have you wonder where our garbage will end up? Where does the item we put in the toilette, and flush down go? The answer is obvious; they often end up in the ocean and on beaches.
Plastic Items
These include all kind of plastic items such as shopping bags, plastic bottles, condoms, and plastic food wrappers. Below is closer look at how long it would take for each of these items to biodegrade.
- The average life span of plastic demijohn is from 400 to 600 hundred years.
- The average life span of plastic bottle is from 300 to 500 hundred years.
- The plastic bags have a life span of 30 to 60 years.
- The plastic rings, which hold pop cans together, have a life span of 450 years.
- The food wrappers have a life span from 20 to 30 years.
- Condoms have the life span of 30 years.
Pieces of plastic, such as the rings around pop bottles, and milk bottles, have the life span of hundreds of years, depending on the quality.
Other Dangerous Items Found in the Ocean
- Aluminum foil lids have a life span of 10 years
- Aluminum has a life span of 5 years
- Sanitary pad items have an average life span of 25 years
- Tin cans have a life span of 200 to 500 hundred years
- Bottle caps have an average of 300 years.
- Diesel and engine oil depends on the amount spilled
- Glass bottles have a life span of thousands of years
- The carton has a life span of 25 to 60 years
- Paper bags have about 4 weeks, but have serious us effect on sea creatures’ digestion
- Cigarette stubs have an average life span of 10 years
- Batteries have a life span of thousands of years
In “An Ocean of Rubbish“, the Pacific Ocean is called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Since 20% of the garbage was attributed to large shipping vessels dumping overboard and the other 80% is from land base.
Let’s just take a peek at what the ocean looks like through these photos from this article:
If looking at these pictures makes you sick in your stomach, perhaps, we should start to care about our environment now, why wait? Go to the following websites and see what you can do to help.
Green Peace
The Great Garbage Patch
Trash Vortex
North Pacific Gyre
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On November 4, 2008 at 3:23 am
garbage,garbage everywhere,whew!!!!
On November 4, 2008 at 3:33 am
My two thumbs up for this article. We must take this environmental issue seriously.
On November 4, 2008 at 3:40 am
A real eye opener he BC Doan. Well done and Im sure it will have an impact.
On November 4, 2008 at 4:23 am
We should concern our polluted environment. Thanks and take care, sister!
On November 4, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Well done, my friend!
On November 4, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Very informative article.
On November 4, 2008 at 3:42 pm
This is really awful. I felt guilty reading this, even though my family is really strict with recycling.
This is something we all need to know about.
On November 4, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Interesting article and thanks for the links
On November 4, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Awesome article.
On November 4, 2008 at 8:45 pm
It is absolutely terrible. We must stop using plastic and the only way is stop buying it. It is hard to do but if we won’t buy it then manufactures won’t make it. I see no other way.
On November 5, 2008 at 8:02 am
‘Change and decay in all around i see’
On November 5, 2008 at 8:33 am
A very sad fact that humans can be the environment’s worst enemy!
On November 5, 2008 at 9:14 am
Oh my God! I’m so sorry to know this.
On November 5, 2008 at 10:12 am
..Hi BC, what an amazing article, a bit depressing but so informative. Thank you and take care.
On November 5, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Very interesting article, BC. That’s horrible how there is so much pollution like that.
On November 6, 2008 at 8:25 am
A lovely article, i i love it, keep it up
On November 6, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Interesting and yet disgusting to know how badly we pollute our waters. I like your work, BC. I’m a true fan!
On November 6, 2008 at 2:27 pm
This is so sad but yet it’s very true, all of us including myself need to start taking an active part in caring for our world. Very good article.
On November 6, 2008 at 4:52 pm
A great eye opener and wonderful job. Thanks, BC for pointing this out. It seems we need reminded often. Even if we did not personally create this mess, we and our children inherit it, so we need to take steps to protect our earth.
On November 9, 2008 at 7:21 pm
oh,that is so horrible…sad and disgraceful!
we need to open our eyes and be concerned,this is where we live and our beautiful creatures….it is their home!it always makes me wonder when im in the ocean ….what am i swimming in? yuck!!wonderful article!
On November 18, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Thank you everybody for your comment! I am touched by your support!
On November 22, 2008 at 5:41 pm
What a mess…no pun intended. We’re killing our planet and its creatures. I’m glad you wrote this B.C. we all need constant reminding…
On November 22, 2008 at 6:38 pm
A very good article. But I’m at a loss as to how to get people to do the responsible thing and dispose of their trash properly. We educate, teach recycling, and talk until we’re blue in the face…and yet intelligent humans who can send a man to the moon cannot throw a plastic bottle into a receptacle. Is Laziness the new God?
We share this planet with many other life forms without which we would die.
Maybe we’re not The Most Intelligent Life Form On Earth…maybe we’re just a mutated Virus.
On November 29, 2008 at 9:48 am
interesting article just goes to show how we do not look after our environment
On December 2, 2008 at 1:56 am
Excellent informative and persuasive article BC. It certainly is an eye opener. I think it’s great that you chose this topic and I hope this article gets a lot of exposure. In fact, I’d like to post a chunk of it on my blog with a link to the rest of the article, if that’s ok with you. Let me know. Great work!
-M
On December 14, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I agree with everyone on the sadness this scenario creates.In my recycling; I try to recycle even the smallest object. There has been some days that I become a little lazy if someone in the household throws a can away,and my coffee grinds lands on top of it! After reading your article- it’s worth the time to dig in and rinse off!..thank you.
On January 5, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I hope many persons will continue to read your so well documented article.
Bravo and thank you very much to you.
Best Regards,
François
On January 23, 2009 at 8:46 am
This is a scary read! We have to be more responsible for what we discard and where. Good work!
On January 23, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Good work. I am quite the recycling freak but not everyone bothers to do it. You’d be surprised how many people think it’s too much of a waste of time to rinse out an old can of tomato sauce or whatever. I think it is a shame.
On August 22, 2012 at 6:38 pm
Great article and a real eye opener…Thanks so much for sharing:)