Plastic Ocean

           
(Sorry, the picture won't rotate)  In this picture, I drew many animals being affected by this ocean pollution. The bird (Sea gull) is trapped by a piece of string that got caught under a rock. The bird, unfortunately can die from this since it can't move around. I also drew many fish on their way inside of  a coke bottle. The coke bottle serves as a site where fish THINK they're going to find food. However, the fish coming out of the coke bottle has a plastic ring around it which only proves that it's a hazardous site. At the bottom, a sea turtle has gotten caught in another plastic ring where you can see it has become deformed. As a whole, the garbage in the ocean is only causing it to become a grave site to all sea animals. Evidently, everyone in the ecosystem will be affected.

Plastic Ocean

In my drawing, i am depicting what is happening in the article "Our oceans are turning into plastic..are we?", but in a very literal sense. The person on the boat S.S. Idiot is dumping an abundance of garbage into the ocean, which accounts for the extremely polluted gyre spoken about in the article. The fish is saying to her children to watch out for all the garbage, because unfortunately many marine animals get caught or eat the garbage, which leads to their death. Then the dolphin is saying that every bit of plastic ever made still exists, showing that this pollution will always remain there, and will ultimately always negatively effect the marine animals, and everyone on the planet; once one ecosystem is destroyed then this effects other ecosystems as well.