olga febiana n I’m a student of English department in University Of Riau, Indonesia Today I’m going to talk about Marine Debris So first I’ll explain about the problem of marine debris The problem of waste no longer a new thing for the earth, especially for the sea. In your opinion, which country produces the most waste in the world?. Based on data presented by THE ECONOMIST INTELLEGENCY UNIT IN 2017, Indonesia is the second largest contributor to plastic waste in the world that is dumped into the sea. Plastic waste in Indonesia reaches 64 million tons/years of which 3.2 million tons is plastic waste that dumped into the sea and then I’ll explain about impact of plastic on the the ocean The impact of plastic waste in the sea is aproblem that can distrupt the ecological, ecotoxicological& economic balance in the short&long term The impact of plastic on the ocean : 1. distrupt the balance of nutrients in the ocean The presence of microplastic make the nutrients in the ocean so unbalanced 2. endanger the safety of underwater animals fauna in the ocean often mistake plastic for food 3. Damage for coral reef as many as 89% of coral reefs that come into contact with plastic are prone sisease&even become severaly damaged 4. Reducing the plankton population plastic wate ditrupt the phytoplankton population 5. Threatening in existence of seabirds according to scientific articles 90% of seabirds stomach contain plastic waste 6. Harmful to hyman health when marine animals eat plastic waste, human are also threatened bcs some of the food consumed comes from sea 7. bad impact on the economy the economy will also be harmed especially for coastal communities and also the tourism sector So how long does it take for plastic waste to decompose? Plastic waste takes 20 until 1000 years to finally decompose. This is of course is very harmful to the environment . For that we must reduce the use of plastic in our daily life How to reduce plastic waste that we can start form ourselves :
finally I’ll explain about how to reduce plastic waste
Stop plastic population the ocean, save our sea n save the world okay That all form me , thank u for ur attention
if u have any question. I’d be pleased to answer them