Plastic Paradise
In the 1920’s America started to see improvements in chemical technology that lead to the invention of plastic. This substance is unlike anything on Earth, because it never breaks downs. In the documentary, Plastic Paradise the journalist Angela Sun travels to a remote island called Midway Atoll, which is the home to almost all the world’s population of the Albatross bird. This island is right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and is equally distance to North America and China. She uncovers the truth about plastic and the effects it has to the ecosystem and the marine life. Sun meets environmentalists to explain The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. According to National Geographic, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection…show more content… It is the advancements in chemical technology and in plastic, which has caused a negative impact on the health of all living creatures on earth. There is a known chemical in plastic that has been known to cause cancer that government should ban because of the negative affects it has on humans and the ecosystem. According to the film, micro-plastics absorbs cacogenic chemicals faster than macro-plastics and is floating all throughout our oceans. Not that many Americans realize that a very popular item which most uses everyday poses a risk. This item is in face scrubs that contains micro-plastics or by popular name microbeads. This is an example of the type of plastic that poses a threat to our oceans and our health. It has effected all marine life as well. There is more plastic then food for marine wildlife in the ocean. Even large plastics are being consumed by marine life. For example, all the dead Albatross birds are found having large pieces of plastic found within the carcass. It is the smaller plastics that pose a higher threat to marine life and humans. Humans are eating fish that are full of cariogenic chemicals from the plastics that they consume. Not only does the plastic itself harm marine life, an additive to
