This week, we have learned about ocean acidification as it relates to climate change. Another major issue affecting the health of our oceans is plastic pollution. Please answer the following:

1. How does plastic, including microplastics, affect ocean organisms?
2. What do corporations/industry need to do to help our plastic pollution problem?
3. What do governments need to do to help our plastic pollution problem?
4. What do we as a society need to do to help reduce our plastic pollution?

Plastics affect ocean organisms in several ways. Ocean organisms could ingest or eat the plastics, which are indigestible by the organisms. When these organisms ingested too many plastics, this could lead to suffocation,

1. How does plastic, including microplastics, affect ocean organisms?

• Because non-biodegradability of the materials, plastics and microplastics, tiny plastic granules with a size lower than 5mm, are omnipresent contaminants in all marine