Personal Plan

Eveybody needs a plan of how they're going to help make the world a better place so here is mine. I plan to go rollarblading at least twice a week in my neighbourhood for about 30 mintues. Since the fall has come arond quite quickly, this would be a good time to spend my free time outside raking leaves, cutting the grass, or weeding the gardens. That could be done for about 30-60 mintues each. If I cut the grass or rake up the leaves, I can then put the grass/leaves on the garden or in the compost so that after a while,we will have fresh clean dirt to put in our gardens. By doing simple and little things such as that, it will all help to make our world a better place to be in.

What Can I Do?

Most advertisements and commercials have been trying to make their products better by saying they are "Environmentally-Friendly." Some actually help make the world a better place while others are the exact same as it was before, or worse. Take cars for example, many companies are selling/advertising "green" cars. It migt be because they run on electricity insted of gas. Well, either way, your not really helping our planet, are you? My oldest brother spent a year in France at a university there, but when he came home, he gave us his car so that he would have to bike to school everyday. It was a hard choice to make, but he believes that it WILL help our environment. So a way that I could help as well could be to car-poor with friends when I need to get somewhere, run and bike more often, or even spend more time out in the "fresh" air insted of being inside just playing video games. That's one thing that my family likes to promote, being and staying active.

The Great Garbage Patch

In 1988, the Great Garbage Patch was first discovered by Charles J. Moore. He first found it as he was sailing home and he came upon a huge stretch of floating debris. Most of the waste was plastic since the Earth cannot digest it. The mess stretched across the North Pacific Ocean including the coastal waters off North America and Japan. As it grows in "swirling" seas, the ratio grows of plastic to sea life, 6:1. There is approximately 3.5 million tons of debris that's about the size of Texas. Since there is more trash to animals, some eat the debris and die. At this time, people are sending out vessels with "plastic-harvesting" nets to catch the garbage and try to clean up the large mess.

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