Save The Fishes
You are sitting comfortably on your sofa with a gift you just received. Like everything, it is packed with a lot of plastic. Unwrapping the gift you remove all the packaging excited to touch, fee, or play with it. Later, you simply throw away all the packaging. The average American throws away approximately 185 pounds of plastic annualy which includes billions of plastic water bottles. Annually, approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than one million bags are used every minute and most of the plastic we throw away ends up in the oceans. There are 3.5 trillion fish in the sea; scientists are saying that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the sea and about 3.2 billion people eat mainly fish so if all the fish die out because of plastic what will those people eat and what jobs will fishermen have? Most fish that eat plastic don’t die but they can get harmed. If humans eat fish with plastic in the fishes body we could get severely sick. The horrible thing about plastic is that it can’t all be recycled and it can’t biodegrade so it will be stuck here forever.
Small steps you can take
When you go shopping, take reusable cloth bags. Buy reusable bags even for the fresh produce and do not use the thin plastic bags provided by the store.
Store all your plastic shopping bags in a big plastic bag. Find a place nearby that accepts plastic bags. Most large grocery stores do so. Once the large bag is full, take it to the store and deposit it for recycling.
Try to buy fewer things made of plastic
By doing these small things you can and will help the environment and can save the fishes.
