● Where does plastic in the ocean came from?

80% come from leaks from land-based sources

About 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into the world s ocean every year
Waterbone chemicals fcom industry and agriculture stick to microplastic making them toxic
poison pills
Majority from China, Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

● What problems does plastic cause to marine organisms? Marine ecosystems

affects and the birds

● What are potential solutions to plastic pollution in the ocean?

A green technology (a plasma torch changes the molecular structure of whatever is put into
it transforming it back to its core elements. Better it has still no detrimental effect on the
environment, it runs off its energy and is affordable)

About the canal :

1. covered with good soil
2. Put up the cocoa pillows
3. Spread it
Idea of putting bioremediation and phytoremediation together

Bioremediation- the use of natural organisms to break down hazardous substances into less
toxic or now-toxic substances

Phytoremediation - the use of green plants to detoxify foil and water containmed with heavy
metals or excess minerals.

.The behave of the people around the steriods

Heavy amounts of organic chlorides and these contain dioxide which are cancer causing
agents

Our Oceans are driven by 5 major circular currents/ gyres. These are Created by the earth's
rotation And the resulting predominant winds. They Collect waste flowing from our rivers
and coastlines and over time anything floating within the gyre will eventually move towards
the center of the gyre.
Plastic smog - tiny pieces of plastic (microplastic) that come from larger pieces →
Sun's ultraviolet light
waves
salt
These plastics absorb chemicals that are free-floating in the ocean, so when the fish eat the
plastics, those toxins then migrate from the plastic to the muscles or fats of the fish.

Phthalates are chemicals used to make plastic more flexible, transparent and durable. They
are toxic. If You breathe them they have hormone/endocrine disrupting properties.

Bisphenol a or BPA changes estrogen

76 fish slated for human consumption in Indonesia and 64 in California

¼ had anthropogenic debris in their guts

● they found plastic in the Indonesian population

Smokey Mountain (flies on the ground)

Baron pits in Tuvalu
Dming WWII in order to build an airstrip for the allies in the pacific theater large quantities of
corals were dug up and carted off to be crushed and mixed for the tarmac. gaping holes left
behind are called Borrow pits.

1991- Germany passed packing laws forcing plastic manufacturers to be responsible for the
recycling or disposal of any packaging material they sell (green dot)

Pressure the government

From knowing comes care, from care comes change