Response to Garbology Ch. 6

   In chapter 6 of Garbology Humes goes into more detail on how our use of plastic is truly effecting not only our land but our oceans as well. It's no secret that our oceans are trash free, but did you know how the plastic is harming sea life that we later consume? the question that Humes has us ask our selves in this chapter is if we really know what we are eating when it comes to seafood. What I found interesting was how you can see all the plastic inside a jelly fish's body that consumed tiny pieces of plastic. It made me wonder about the fish that don't have transparent bodies as jelly fish do. "Plastic can take chemicals from the water, but then little fish eat that plastic, and a chain reaction called bio-magnification begins"(132). What also caught my attention was how 100 years ago there was no plastic in our oceans at all. But now it seems we use plastic for everything and we are throwing tons of it away daily so some of that plastic is bound to end up in the ocean. If you think about it plastic isn't very healthy to begin with. Its all made up of chemicals but yet we store our food in it and drink from it. We should really consider switching to glass.