Taking part in an annual beach clean-up is one way to keep the oceans healthy for generations to come. In the past 25 years, over 144,606,491 pounds of trash has been collected from beaches world-wide from Alaska to New Zealand. Beach-clean-ups is considered to be very important because throwing trash into beaches, and the oceans can be better known as pollution. When trash gets into the oceans, animals can easily mistaken that trash for a certain food source. An example of this is with the sea turtles. When a turtle sees a plastic bag floating around in the ocean, the animal might mistaken it for a jellyfish before swallowing it as a whole. The plastic bag may prevent the turtle from eating, thus, cause it to slowly starve itself to death. Trash-induced marine pollution has been a subject of a number of wildlife documentaries for years; each and everyone of these segments which talked about marine pollution, has brought a huge light among the public to start taking action to help make their beaches healthier and safe for all marine wildlife. While many coastal towns have taken action to require city dumps to collect trash from beaches and relocate to dumps that are away from beaches, the pollution sadly, still continues. By taking part in these annual beach clean-ups, you are leaving a great example to others on how to reduce marine debris in the seas and allowing wildlife to remain safe from pollution
It's all our fault. We can't blame it on the dogs or the fish, we must blame ourselves. We leave our trash behind. We pretend the rubbish isn't there. Everyone has to do their part to solve this problem. It can't be just a few trying to do the job.
There are a lot of things that we can do. For one, we can help pick up trash along the beaches. We could also form some kind of organization that helps clean up the beaches of Hawaii. But if we don't want to do that, we can just simply pick up our own trash and throw away all the trash that we see lying around.
If everyone does their part, the beaches of Hawaii would be a wonderful and beautiful place. We need to start now before the beaches are damaged beyond repair. ^