More and more plastic is polluting the oceans. What problems are caused by plastic waste? What can be done to solve this problem?

From Tierra del Fuego in Argentina to the Icelandic peninsula, all countries around the world are facing now a terrible problem. It looks like we have not been too cautious about the way in which we have been treating our planet, and now it might be too late to reverse all the damage we have inflicted on it. In most parts of the civilised countries, the population makes
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daily, heavy use of cars, trains, and planes to move from one place to another. These transportation methods have not been caring towards the natural environment, causing the death of thousands of animal
species
and vegetables because of the toxic fumes they emit to the stratosphere on daily
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. It does not get better at the surface level, as manhood has managed to deforest most parts of the forest
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of another ecological issue, as the
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absence
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of trees in those zones carries out an unnatural change in the cycle of the water, altering the flow of small and large rivers that, on their way to the sea, carry on the detritus of the deforested areas, contaminating the deltas and causing the death of marine
species
due to the change in the salinity of their liquid environment. Another big environmental issue humanity has to face as soon as possible is
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related to the maritime fauna, as thousand of kilos of the plastics we use in our common routines, day in, day out, end up
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seas,
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mammals
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fishes,
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to many other
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. The smaller pieces of plastics, the so-called “microplastics”, are frequently found inside numerous
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of animals living in the oceans. The time has come for us to stop
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massacre. You can start a local movement at your school, or at your
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a much more reduced scale, at home. Share with your parents your knowledge and your worries. Get your family members and your friends involved in the fight against
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climate change, and do it now, because time is running out for
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of
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other living forms all around the world.
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