A team of college student came together along with other scientist to conduct a study of all the plastic in the sea. Which was called SEAPLEX (Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition) This study showed how dangerous the plastic can be to animal life and human life. About 5.6 million tons of plastic ends up in the sea causing major harm to the marine life. This is very heart braking and scary because most of the world food come from the marine life in the ocean. And we are careless and not trying to make a change about this.
The sea of plastic... interesting very interesting. By far one of the most engaging chapter I have read in the book because it talks about the ocean and the harm that is being done to it by plastic. The smaller fish that eats zooplankton in the ocean mistake the broken up plastic for zooplankton. The plastic absorbs chemicals and the fish eat the plastic and it transfers to the bigger fish and so on until it gets to us, when we eat the fish. I really believe that this should be acted upon quickly.