Wildlife Catastrophes - Ocean Dead Zones & Floating Trash Islands Hurting Oceanic Sea Life

What about the sea life? Humans are polluting ourbetween 14 and 26% where does the rest of the 74
oceans at an alarming rate as they allow trash to flowto 86% come from? It comes from streams and
into our oceans and much of this trash ends uprivers polluted with trash, most of that comes from
together in giant floating islands of debris. Where doesillegal dumping and storm water runoff that flows from
it all come from?streets into the rivers, streams and oceans. Yes, this is
Well, many ships dump their trash overboard, but thatpretty sick. Worse the amount of garbage in the
only accounts for about 26% say manyocean is truly insane.
environmentalist groups, while the shipping, cruise lineMost of the dead zones are caused by run-off of
and maritime industries admit it is unfortunate but thenitrates from human civilization into the ocean, along
number is more like 14%, for which they do notwith untreated sewage and all sorts of other horrible
condone.stuff. All-in-all between the garbage, plastic bottles,
In fact, many cruise lines have completely stoppedsewage and polluted run-off human kind is trashing our
dumping due to the bad public relations fall out andEarth's Oceans.
nearly all Navies of the World have also stopped. TheAll this junk is playing havoc on sea life and it is a said
modern day pirate ships and terrorists still dump, well,affair when humans will not come to terms with the
everyone is pretty sure they do, they do not seem toneeds of wildlife in our oceans and continue to pollute.
care about anything but themselves. No one else isSomething must be done and some nations still just
admitting to it, but it is known that many shipping linesthrow their trash in the rivers, streams and oceans.
do dump over board.Think on this.
Still, the even if the percentages are somewhere