Chapter 5

What I thought was just amazing about this chapter was something different. We've been learning about landfills and waste management, but now we get deeper, deeper into the ocean. Finding large portions of trash in the Pacific Ocean , Mary Crowley a lover at sea explores the oceans. "Killing more than one hundred thousand marine mammals and an even larger number of seabirds"  (Humes108) She explains to the reader that all this trash wasn't here 40 years ago. Having over 50% of our water filled with trash right now is doing much damage. Image 10 years into the future, if we don't change this. There is so much plastic in the ocean that we  don't even know about. As I started to grab my attention around this sensitive subject I asked my self some questions. Do we have a ocean filter that is being used?  Does the government take this seriously? These questions I could only wonder what the answers could be.