Do any of you own an acne wash or cleanser with those tiny colorful beads inside? Because I do, and I was never really sure what they were. I knew what they did to my face, but I did not know what it does to our earth. Humes branches out to the issue of how garbage is affecting our ocean in this chapter. The ocean is in a way a lot like our trash cans. Once trash goes inside them, the trash seems to "magically" disappear (as we like to say in class). But the reality is that it doesn't disappear; in fact it will reappear somewhere else. Like in the shores of our beaches. Have you been to Santa Monica beach lately? There's trash all over the shore there. From chip bags to baby dippers, I have seen it all in Santa Monica beach.
Humes discussed how plastic is one of the main objects that pollute our oceans. like the little tiny beads in our face wash. I was unaware that what I scrub my face with was indeed plastic beads. I always thought that those beads were made of an acne medicine or something, and that they would eventually dissolve. But in fact, these tiny beads are what pollute or oceans the most. You see we use these beads to melt them down into new plastic products like toothbrushes or Barbie dolls. And we have these beads shipped all over the place to make our products, so of course millions of those beads are surly to fall into our oceans for marine life to consume by mistake.
What shocked me the most was how those plastic beads contain plastic particles that can be toxic. So when fish eat these particles, we eat the fish, then we contain the plastic particles. This reminds me of Justine Parkin's video about garbage and how women's breast milk contains the most toxins. And after reading this chapter, it's no wonder why. we have to reduce our use of plastic, it's a must. We can come up with better ways to make our products.
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