Choices Explanation

 LI: to write an explanation

Why is it Important to Make Wise Choices?

Have you ever thought about how many marine animals die of plastic pollution? Every year 8 million metric tons of plastic enter our oceans, now they circulate across our oceans harming marine life, polluting our reefs, and being swept up on to our coastlines. How would you feel if your home was overrun by plastic?

Due to our careless acts we put the lives of many marine animals at risk, and some people don’t recognise that. If we throw rubbish on the ground without a second thought, that plastic gets caught up by the wind or leads to our drains. Once the plastic is in our drains it's most likely that it’ll end up in our oceans. Most of the rubbish in our oceans gets swept away by our ocean currents, that takes it to one place. That place is called the sea of plastic, the plastic that travels there builds up so much that it’s not even inhabitable for marine life anymore.

Approximately 8 million pieces of plastic make their way to our oceans. Plastic is a material that has a long durability. So when they enter our waters it means the plastic won't be breaking down for another decade or two. When they do break down they turn into micro plastics that end up in our fish. So when we eat fish the micro plastics not only end up hurting the fish it ends up entering our bodies causing harm for us. 

Marine animals die all over the world due to plastic pollution so please for the sake of our marine animals and even for yourself, be aware of the plastic that you throw on the ground. If everyone makes a wise choice, I think we would have a bright future. 

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For our task for writing this week we created an explanation about what wise choice we could make. For an example you could make a wise choice by not doing illegal drugs, or helping the environment. I made mine about how our oceans are being polluted by plastic and its harming our marine life. I chose for "Making a wise choice" was that we should be aware of how much rubbish is polluting the enviroment.