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Pollution & Litter

By: Devin Kasey

Imagine breathing in polluted air or swimming in an ocean with no tiny fish and creatures? Well in the passages “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson they are telling me about the causes and effects of pollution and littering. They also explain it is effecting our air,oceans, and our earth. In my essay I will be describing how  “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and ‘Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson are both similar and different.

In the passages “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson, I will be describing how they are similar. These passages are alike in many ways. In the passage “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” it indicates that “all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollutes the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.” and “Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.”

and in “Art for Ocean Animals” it also indicates that “Pozzi started Washed Ashore when she noticed plastics on the beaches in Oregon, where she lives. Plastic doesn’t break down and become absorbed by the environment. Instead, sunlight breaks it down into pieces about the size of plankton, which are tiny organisms that float in the sea. These tiny pieces of plastic enter the food chain. Sea animals eat them and end up dying. Pozzi always loved the ocean and the animals in it, and she wanted to do something to help both.” Pozzi is an artist and she’s created sea creatures out of the plastic bottles on the beach shore line “Another sculpture, called Fish Bite Fish, is shaped like a fish and made out of little bits of plastic that contain tooth and claw marks from the fish and crabs that tried to devour the plastic. “We get so many pieces of plastic like this, I’m on my third Fish Bite Fish [sculpture],” says Pozzi.”These two articles are both telling me are lives, Earth, and world are being effected.  These two passages have many similarities and differences.

In the articles “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson I will be describing how they are different. These passages are different in many ways. Well I already know they are different by the fact that one is talking about littering and the other is talking about pollution. Also as “Art for Ocean Animals” talks about the ocean and how its being effected while “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” is talking about how our Earth, homes, and lives could be effected. In “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” it states that “Plastic bottle recycling can help—instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.” and “Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.” and in “Art for Ocean Animals” it states that “Pozzi doesn’t collect all the trash by herself. When people spot litter on beaches, they drop it off at Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education, in Bandon, Oregon. Then Angela and her volunteers begin the process of turning the waste into art. Everything used for the sculptures is found on the beach, except for the framework and the materials used to connect the litter together.” and “Who does Pozzi believe can save marine animals? “Kids have a lot of power,” she told TFK. “They are the ones that can make things happen. I really believe it.”That is why they are alike and different.

In conclusion in the passages “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox and “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson they are telling me about the causes and effects of pollution and littering. They also explain it is effecting our air,oceans, and our earth. I stated why I think these passages are alike and different in many ways.

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