Plastic Poisoning

Bryan Amador

English 101

Professor Garrett

November 26, 2013

The art project I created is a representation of a dead fish in the ocean. I used a plastic bottle I found to create the body of the fish. The trash inside the body represents the fish’s diet. Fish often confuse washed up garbage to be food. The fish eat the trash thinking its food but they cannot digest it. Plastics like the ones used in my picture are small enough to be eaten by fish. However eating plastic is a real problem for fish and often leads to their death. There is too much trash that is finding its way into the habitats of fish. We need to become more aware of what the tiniest piece of trash can cause. A small fragment of plastic may not be able to harm us but it can cause death to smaller creatures like fish. We need influence each other on the idea that trash fragments like plastic need to be properly disposed of. Every time we dispose of trash incorrectly; it could be the cause of death for a fish.