Ocean Pollution

In Sarah Dessen's novel, Along For The Ride, the setting is a little beach town called, Colby. Colby is a cute beach town that brings the protagonist Auden to see the true teenager inside her. However, beaches and oceans are beginning to be destroyed through all the ocean pollution. Poisonous wastes are being dumped into the ocean, called toxic wastes. toxic wastes are not only impacting plants and animals in the ocean but also our own health. Thus, if an organism in the ocean is affected by a toxic wasted it can be passed through the food chain and end up being the seafood we eat. Along with Toxic wastes, oil spills and the dumping of other harmful materials are affecting the ocean and are all major causes of ocean pollution. On the other hand there are also many ways to prevent ocean pollution. Boaters can help a lot by only turning on the engine when needed, don't take your boat out in the water if there is no need for it, store and transport gasoline in places where there isn't direct sunlight because the gasoline will evaporate and all the gases that have been evaporated will pollute the air, lastly you should by new and cleaner marine engines for your boats. The ocean is made up of multiple zones, including the sunlight zone. the sunlight zone is where pollution is the biggest problem. oil pollution is the main kind of pollution in this zone caused by two main causes. one being big ships leaking oil and the other being ships carrying oil crashing into things in the ocean. People can reduce ocean pollution and save many lives of plants, animals, and even humans. If people don't do something about ocean pollution soon our beaches will not be a place to go and spend time with family, friends, to be a teenager, like Auden and her friends in Colby in Sarah Dessen's novel, Along For The Ride.

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