[garbage] [industrial waste water] [sludge dumping]



Beaches always have lots of garbage, like plastic litter and medical waste. People don’t consider the consequences when they drop there plastic wrappers or six-pack rings on the ground. These things get picked up by the tide and get caught on animals. Plastic rings get stuck around a bird’s beak, or a fish’s body, and they die. Plastic bags suffocate animals, and they try to eat small items and choke on them. Also, larger items like ropes, nets, or even lots of fishing line, can get stuck around an animal, and get imbedded into its skin as it grows, eventually suffocating it or stopping it from eating. Every year, 6 miles off the coast of New Jersey, 400,000 cubic yards of construction debris are dumped at the “Cellar Dirt Site.” This should be cause for alarm, and something needs to be done about it.



All of this garbage may someday reach the ocean.