Every year, beaches all around the world are affected by water-polluting activities, such as landfills running into water sources that eventually reach the oceans, to anything voluntary like throwing a piece of plastic on the beach.
Even though it completely slips people’s minds, throwing anything in the ocean, or even on the sand, is an incredibly selfish act by humans, as it causes a lot more problems than you could ever have thought in that very moment.
The act of throwing a plastic bottle or package on the ground anywhere has the potential of reaching the ocean, if not a river, dam or spring that is used by some form of life, to be able to sustain itself.
Considering the fact that people litter daily, is another completely unsettling thought, given that fish and sea life will consume almost anything that enters the water, without even knowing what it is.
What is left at the end of the day, is thousands, to millions of fish and organisms that either die; as a result thereof, due to some chemical released by human-made structures, or even spread disease.
Environmental Pollution Affects both Sea Life and Humans
It has been estimated that millions of people have become ill, due to coming into contact with sewer overflows, which have somehow made its way to the ocean, and has caused people to get ill.
How does sewerage and materials, such as plastic, reach the ocean?
Well, unfortunately, rain accounts for being the medium of how these water/health hazards reach the oceans, which proves the point that littering or polluting anywhere, could eventually reach the ocean.
It thus doesn’t only affect sea life, but at the end of the day, affects humans, and the entire environment.
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