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//**WILL OCEAN POLLUTION EVER END??**// **//No one knows if pollution will end any time soon..but we can try to stop it before it wipes out the sea animals,and seaplankton,and much more and water pollution is harming us as well.The ocean and its animals shouldnt suffer because some people litter and drive more they have to,or the gas from there boats are leaving thier oil in the ocean.//****//One problem caused by pollution that occurs in the midnight zone is called anoxic water. This means that there is no or hardily any dissolved oxygen in the water. When there is no dissolved oxygen, fish and other creatures can’t breathe, and they will quickly die from a lack of oxygen. Some of the creatures that live at this depth might die or migrate to other parts of the ocean. If they do migrate, there is a possibility that there could become a problem in the food chain.//** [] //** Toxic waste is a poisonous material that not only harms the ocean, but humans, too. Toxic waste pollution has a huge impact on our health and can harm many plants and animals that live in the ocean. Why is it harmful to us if it ends up in the ocean? Well, it’s because of the food chain. A fish could eat some kind of toxic pollution, and we could end up eating the fish as seafood. Toxic waste ends up in the ocean by leaking off of the landfills, mines, farms, etc. The most harmful waste is lead. It can cause a lot of health problems to us, and marine animals. ** //**Pollution is major problem in the sunlight zone. The main kind of pollution that occurs in this zone is oil pollution. The two main causes of oil pollution in the ocean are big ships leaking oil or ships carrying oil crashing into things in the ocean. // Do you really want to harm our oceans just because you are to lazy to put your trash into a TRASHCAN?? //**  //1,000 miles off the California coast, in an area known as the central North Pacific gyre, there is a floating island of plastic that spans nearly 5 million square miles, roughly the size of the United States plus India combined. Ocean pollution, or marine debris, is one of the biggest threats to our ocean ecosystem, economy, and tourism industry. Plastic makes up the largest percentage of this marine debris: 60-80 percent of all marine debris is plastic. Marine debris affects 267 species worldwide. Animals often eat bits of plastic that they mistake for food, and endure internal injuries, intestinal blockage, and starvation. Birds mistake plastic for nesting material, and sea turtles find their hatching migration blocked by plastic debris. Other animals suffer suffocation, drowning and entanglement, as plastic debris fill up the areas that they call home. This plastic contamination results in severe injuries or death for many animals. Plastic debris also acts as the perfect material on which persistent organic pollutants latch. These pollutants are then able to travel freely around the ocean ecosystem.

Annually, marine debris is growing at an alarming rate. Eighty percent of pollution in the ocean comes from land pollution. Plastic bags are a huge source of this plastic pollution, as is Polystyrene, a type of plastic used in food packaging, such as clear plastic cups and containers. Foamed versions of this plastic, such as expanded polystyrene (EPS) and extruded polystyrene (commonly known as Styrofoam™) are also frequently used. Californians use 165,000 tons of polystyrene each year for packaging food, with no recycling options available. As a non-biodegradable plastic, it lasts for hundreds of years and can float hundreds of miles away from where it was released. In California, 15% of the total volume of litter recovered from storm drains is polystyrene. Finally, cigarette butts constitute a final category of debris. Environment California is supporting three bills this year to regulate and reduce plastic bags pollution, polystyrene, and cigarette butts.//



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