In the article “A Sea of Plastic: Understanding The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” a oceanographer namer Charles Moore was sailing from Hawaii to California when he set course through a little-traveled area of the Pacific called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. What Moore noticed was large amounts of garbage and disposal which cause a great conversion around the nation, about the health of the marine life and the ocean. In the other article “The Mercury Menace How a Toxic Metal Gets Into our dinner” a boy named Matthew Davis, a 10-year-old Californian, got poisoned because he ingested mercury by consuming large amounts of fish. For a year Matthew Davis has consumed canned albacore tuna fish sandwiches every day. These two articles have some ideas that are the same and different. The journey of how the trash gets into the ocean and…show more content… In the second article a boy is actually affected by mercury and causes harm to him. In the second article , humans are not actually being affected by the trash , although the marine life may be being harmed by the debris. Evidence from the second article states “some adults were experiencing symptoms similar to Matthew’s, and it was discovered that they had mercury poisoning.” The first article also provides evidence that states “Although no comprehensive cleanup plan exists, for any effort to be successful and produce lasting effects the global community must address the issues that led to the creation of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the first place.” This statement from the article proves that humans aren’t determined to clean it up. The Great Pacific Garbage patch was discovered over 20 years ago and still a plan has not be issued to clean up the trash. If humans were being physically harmed by the debris a plan would have been issued right away to clean up the
