The ocean makes up the most crucial part of the life of every living human being and other living creatures as well as plants. The living human beings and animals require water and oxygen for survival. About half of the oxygen available in the atmosphere comes from the ocean. The water covers more than 90% of the existing planets in the atmosphere. In the name of development, the situation of the sea worsens on a daily basis. The worsening comes as a result of the production of harmful products that affect the ocean. Pollution of water possesses a significant risk to the water living creatures, the plants as well as we human beings as the consumers of the same water, (Jambeck, et al p. 770). In solving the water pollution, it demanded an idea of reusing plastics considered as waste materials. Through a lot of research, David Katz found a way to reuse the waste plastics. The reuse of plastic would be a source of income. The process would earn the state some revenue as well as gain the citizens an additional income. To actualize the idea of reusing the plastic waste, David founded a plastic bank where the world would collect and exchange the plastic as currency.
During a speech given by David in December, David said the ocean needed a quick solution to reduce the garbage thrown into the sea on a daily basis. The waste products resulted in the immediate pollution of the water. Due to the water pollution, water living creatures suffered death due to the intoxication of the water. The garbage had an effect of reducing the available oxygen posing the life of the beings at risk. The said that continues death of the water living animals would result in extinction. Unless an immediate solution takes place, all animals living in water will die since plastics formed the food chain. David determined to clean the environment urged the people to join hands to assist in cleaning the environment to save the life of animals living in water. The solution would also protect the living beings from consuming contaminated water that comes from the ocean, (Rochman, et al, p. 165).
David requested people to start cleaning the sea as soon as the people received the information. David compared the ocean cleaning project to a situation that every person understood. David said that in a condition where ones leaving the water running and the house socked with rain, on coming back the first thing would to turn off the tap and then start cleaning the room. It would be meaningless to begin cleaning the room without turning off the tap first. By saying this, David implied that it would also be trivial to start cleaning the ocean without a solution of the plastic, (Rochman, et, al.p.169) With David’s solution for the plastics, people should begin reusing the plastics to ensure no pollution.
During the talk, David pointed out that most of the plastics originated from countries where citizens survived in absolute poverty. With the development of plastic bank, the citizens should make use of the plastic to earn an extra coin to improve the living standards. David also pointed out that more than 300 million plastics went to the ocean and more than half of the plastics thrown into the sea were still in the sea.
The plastic bank becomes the largest world chain store for the ultra-poor people. The chain store consisted everything required by the people as long as the store received plastic bags, (Li and Fok p.340). The bank would exchange the reusable plastics with the items in the store. Anything needed to reduce the poverty levels of the people come from the chain stores. The items included things such as; WIFI, cell phone power, education fee, medical insurance, and fuel. To have a reliable source of income one would only require to collect plastics from one business to the other, from the streets from door to door, from one person to the other and take the collected plastics to the plastic bank. The quality and quantity of the material underwent an assessment to ensure the quality and amount satisfied the buyer and the equivalent amount of money transferred to the account of the individual who took the plastic to the bank at the end of the day.
David pointed out that the plastics collected would undergo some process before transportation. The value of the plastics increased through technology, labels removed, caps removed and finally the plastics would be prepared for exportation, (Wong, et, al, p. 170). To reduce the many problems fast by the citizens, David urged the people to use the available opportunity to raise money to assist in improving the living standards and grow the economy of one’s country. For example, lise who lost the husband during the Haitian earthquake that occurred in 2010 and left homeless could use the reuse opportunity to earn a living for the children. With the money received lise would pay the tuition fee for the children and buy school uniforms and other requirements for the children. The program would eradicate poverty and extract the plastics found in the ocean to reduce pollution. Reduction of pollution would rescue the lives of creatures living in water. Through recycling, recyclers would come into existence that would be used to clean the sea and to minimize poverty levels.
David said that the plastics received by the bank went straight to other more prominent companies. The big companies recycle the plastics to make them reusable, (Wong, et, al, p. 175). The big company would give money in exchange for plastics. David marked that, about eight trillion plastics still exists as waste worth nearly four trillion. If only the plastics would be recycled people would at least earn some money.
In conclusion, I can say that, if we clean the ocean, we will earn a lot of money. The cleaning of the sea would win the state revenue through taxation of the recycling process. The individuals involved in the cleaning process would also improve the living standards using the money earned as salaries for the employed as well as from the sale of the plastics considered as wastes. The cleaning of the ocean would also help in saving the lives of the animals living in water. Cleaning the sea would bring about richness to the people and therefore the need to join hands in cleansing the ocean as a small step executed by a small group brings about a significant revolution.
Works cited
Jambeck, Jenna R., et al. “Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean.” Science 347.6223 (2015): 768-771.
Rochman, Chelsea M., et al. “Policy: Classify plastic waste as hazardous.” Nature 494.7436 (2013): 169.
Li, W. C., H. F. Tse, and L. Fok. “Plastic waste in the marine environment: A review of sources, occurrence and effects.” Science of the Total Environment 566 (2016): 333-349.
Wong, S. L., et al. “Current state and future prospects of plastic waste as source of fuel: A review.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 50 (2015): 167-180.
