the article we’ve been reading the author uses cause and effect text structure. He uses this text structure to help readers recognize how much of a problem plastic is for our environment. In the next few paragraphs I will talk about the cause and the effect plastic has on the environment.
“The cause is that it has become overrun by human pollution”. This is a problem because people are throwing away plastic bottles, bags and many more things. After all of these people throw trash and garbage in the ocean it ends up on the land. Also, when they throw trash away the aqua life is affected because fish are getting stuck in bags. Turtles are getting straws stuck up their nose then they can’t breath. These are all really bad things because if we keep on doing this the sea life population might go down. That would be super bad for the environment.
The effect is “ these pieces of plastic that end up on land are easily consumed by wildlife.”This is the effect because once all of this trash is on the land all of these animals are eating it. Another sad thing is that hermit crabs are making plastic containers into shells (also were they live). This could be very hazardous to all of the wildlife on land. This is one reason why we should not litter as us people.
In conclusion, the sea animals could get injured. Another one is that the land animals could get hurt. This is why we need to do something about trash and plastic ending up in any body of water.