Oceans are an essential part of life on our planet but unfortunately we don't always treat them with respect. many of us use the ocean as a trash can. Some areas of the ocean look like garbage dumps with plastics bottles old fishing nets tires straws cigarettes plastic bags and other trash floating in the water. Every ocean has problems with marine debris. In the summer of 2012 scientist from the national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration removed 50 metric ton of garbage from the pacific Ocean waters and the shorelines of the Northwestern Hawaii Island