Essays on Ocean Pollution

Ocean pollution, or marine pollution, occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.

Marine debris pollution, plastic pollution, ocean acidification, nutrient pollution, toxins, underwater noise, and other.

There are many ways to categorize and examine the inputs of pollution into marine ecosystems. There are three main types of inputs of pollution into the ocean: direct discharge of waste into the oceans, runoff into the waters due to rain, and pollutants released from the atmosphere.

Ocean pollution has many consequences, such as: harm to marine animals (cancer, behavioral changes and inability to reproduce), depletion of oxygen in seawater, threats to human health (cancer and birth defects).

100 million marine animals die each year from plastic waste alone.
The largest trash site on the planet is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, twice the surface area of Texas, it outnumbers sea life there 6 to 1.
70% of our debris sinks into the ocean's ecosystem, 15% floats, and 15% lands on our beaches.
80% of global marine pollution comes from agriculture runoff, untreated sewage, discharge of nutrients and pesticides.