Impact: Marine Debris, Part I

The Importance of Living an Eco-Friendly Life

If you are interested in living a green life, you are most likely aware of the dangerous effects of trash and waste on the environment.

Learn about some "Direct Environmental Impacts" of debris on the eco-system below:

1. Ingestion: A dangerous impact of waste in the environment is that animals might mistake the trash for food.  Clearly, ingesting any waste is dangerous and can cause adverse health effects, infertilization, and death to the animals.  
2. Entanglement: This is often cited as the most-recognized  Environmental Impact of waste and debris in the marine ecosystem.  With so much waste in the ocean, fish, turtles, and other animals can become entangled in rope, plastic bags, netting, etc.  Not only can this physically exhaust and distress the animal, but they can develop wounds and infections from entanglement.
3. Ecosystem Alteration: Debris and waste not only impacts animals: the surrounding eco-system suffers.  In the ocean, coral reefs can be damaged or broken from debris that in turn continues down to the ocean floor.

Learn more about the impact of Marine Debris in our blog next week.

The facts presented in this blog can be found in the article "Marine Debris Impacts" on the EPA website: www.epa.gov.

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