Varshney, V. (2015, March 31). Plastic Peril. Retrieved November 19, 2015, from

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/plastic-peril-48985

Most of the waste produced on land finds its way in the end to the ocean, which results to it then appearing on the beaches along the coasts. “The researchers found that anything between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes (MT) of plastic enters the oceans each year” (Varshney, 2015). This issue has been examined by many scientists and most of them agree that to end this issue, waste management needs to be enforced globally. The plan is to create more recovery systems for waste and to lay more responsibility on large companies. The main push for waste management will be laid on more developed countries like the US, China, and the UK, because they have more capability to implement these policies because they have more money and guilt, because they are the ones producing most of the waste.

I believe this plan to encourage more waste management is brilliant and hopefully produce less waste along the coast. It is important to reduce waste in the ocean and the coasts because they contaminate the ecosystems in the water and on the beaches. Many have seen the images of birds with the plastic wrapping from soda around their necks choking them, which saddens me and further motivates me to want to change the waste issue. I also believe it is a smart tactic to target the larger more developed countries with waste management, but also the developing nations like India, still need to be educated on waste management because they are large waste producers.