Ocean Trash
Topics:
• What is the problem ?
• What causes the problem ?
• What are the effects of this
problem?
• Who suffers most due to
the problem ?
• When did the problem
start ?
• How will it expand in
the future ?
• How could it be stopped
?
• Statisten and fakts
 •What is the problem?
• Three quarters of the garbage in the sea consists of plastic, specifically
4.8 - 12.7 million tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year. ... It
is precisely these small particles that are a major problem in the sea,
as marine animals mistake them for food such as plankton.
 •What causes the problem ?
• The animals starve to death with full stomachs because plastic clogs
the digestive system, whales and dolphins, but also turtles, get caught
in old fishing nets, drown or suffer serious injuries when attempting
to rescue them. The so-called garbage vortices are a special
phenomenon.
 • What are the effects of this problem?

• More than ten million tons of waste end up in the oceans every year.
They cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of marine animals.
Sea birds mistake plastic for natural food, dolphins get caught in old
fishing nets. Hardly any threat to the oceans is as visible today as
pollution from plastic waste.
 •Who suffers most due to the
problem ?

• Plastic has only been produced in large quantities since World War II.
I find it terrifying that after 25 years it appears in the middle of the
ocean. You ask yourself what will be in 50 or 100 years? " The story of
the research into plastic waste is like a puzzle in which a picture is
slowly created, piece by piece. It is a history of science that shows
how strongly a field of research thrives on the people who work for it.
 •When did the problem start ?

• Plastic balls in the stomachs of fish, plastic waste in the sea: this has
been known for decades - without much being done about it. Why
did it take so long for the problem to be taken seriously by politicians
and the public? Carpenter found plastic in the ocean as early as the
1970s
 How will it expand in the future ?

• There is an organization that takes care that the "ocean waste" is

reduced as much as possibleA ship is being built, the company is
called "the ocean cleanup" and it cleans the ocean as well as it can