Issues+of+Solid+Waste

Solid waste damages many different aspects of our environment. When people are out in fishing boats, they carelessly dump trash into the ocean. Though this is illegal no one can stop them. These people are probably not thinking about what they are doing to the environment when they put this trash in the water. Sea turtles like to eat jelly fish, and when they see a clear plastic bag floating in the water they may mistake it for a jelly fish and eat it. This bag is indigestible and soon will starve the sea turtle to death. Another issue is that the birds and other animals on the beaches may get plastic netting or other kinds of solid watse tangled around them. After they struggle to get out for a long time they will probably give up and die.

Our comunity depends a lot on battery power. We use batteries a lot more than we need to. Though people probably don't think about this, when these batteries are dumped into a land fill, the chemicals inside them leak and pollute the land and the air. When too much of this pollution gets into the air it may become a risk of death to people.