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Water Trash

Members: Jocelyn, Jameson, Sydney, Tyler Mentor: Rachel Strozeski (←awesome) :)

ANOTHER BEACH CLEAN COMING UP ON JUNE 6TH, PLEASE COME IF POSSIBLE. Time: 3:30-5:00 Place: Discovery Bay beach Meet: The peir



Central Idea: Communities have a right and responsibility to unite and create opportunities to make a better future.

Why we chose this problem:

Jocelyn : In my exhibition group the problem we are focusing on is Water Trash. I chose to do this problem because in TV shows and books I see how much damage water pollution does. Water trash has a big effect on everything. Animals eat and get caught in the trash by mistake and then die. It affects coral reefs and the food cycle. If one fish dies out, other fish who eat it will start to go hungry and die as well. To me, water pollution seems really bad. At camp, we cleaned up garbage near the beach. There was so much! There were even things like shoes and little toys! I have also heard of something called the Great Pacific Garbag Patch. It's supposed to be twice the size of Texas and is full of garbage. I wouldn't like to be a fish living there! It makes me sad thinking about how much garbage people have made and then they put it in the ocean.

Sydney : I chose water trash because I wanted to do something about helping the water. My first choice ended up being Saving the sharks. I still wanted to do something on water because the ocean is being destroyed which effects the fish and when the fish population goes down the people who only eat seafood wont survive if there are no fish alive.

Tyler: I did an issue blog because I honestly think that those could be issues and can happen. I wanted to make my issue blog to give information to be prepared for those issues you might have. If you would have time to share your information about issues then you can help a lot of people because that's why I made a issue blog to try and help people that have issues.

Jameson: Originally I wanted to save the pink dolphins for Exhibition, but then I realized that if I worked on saving the ocean and getting the trash out of the ocean, I'd make a cleaner environment for all the ocean animals. I also wanted to choose to save the ocean because I am tired of seeing so much trash in the harbor, when I cross on the Star Ferry. There is so much trash that you could use a huge net and, if you used a big net and scooped once, you'd get enough to fill the net. Hopfully I will see a change in the trash in the water when Exhibition is over and that the trash clean up will continue on after the Exhibition is over.

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