Tuesday, January 30, 2018



Hello, Friends of the Earth!!

I once saw a man toss his milky way plastic wrapper on the ground as if it were no big deal. I gave him an intense glare, but I do not think that he even noticed it. Later on that day I found out what it caused: It began to rain, and the plastic wrapper was washed into a storm drain by the rain, then it ended up in the ocean, and it caused a penguin to die after it ate it. An couple hours after I heard about this I went out for another walk and I saw another plastic wrapper on the side of the road! To avoid letting this scenario happen again I picked it up and threw it away in the trash. 

This scenario has been repeated millions of times. Unfortunately a lot of litter that ends up in the ocean form into what is called a enormous  plastic island, and two are almost as big as Texas! It may seem like it is not a big deal but it is, it can do so much damage to the world and to ourselves!

Many people eat fish, but if plastic litter gets into the ocean, the fish eat the plastic and we eat the fish along with the plastic! One wa...