plastic sea

Hawaii is always portrayed as being such a paradise, right? The one thing that stands out to most people when they come to a place like Hawaii are the beautiful beaches. How long will our beaches hold its beautiful standard with all of the garbage that ends up in the ocean. Seeing all of that plastic in the ocean was discusting. It is very sad and unfortunate to see all of that plastic polluting the ocean; how long will it be before our beaches become completely covered with plastic and too dirty for anyone to enjoy. Although people make such a big deal about recycling and such, what about the trash and plastic and things that are already polluting our oceans. I think it is very good to influence recycling and things like that, but its sad that majority of the people I know only recycle aluminum cans and plastic because by redeeming those items, you receive money. I don't think that people do it for the benefit of our environment anymore as much as they do it for the money. I remember going to elementary school and learning to recycle bottles and cans to help keep the land clean. I remember being taught that everyone should do their part to help even if it means picking up a piece of trash that isn't yours and throwing it away. I recently went to the beach and saw a group of people who were drinking beer on the beach and then left their pile of bottles in the sand. My cousins and I gathered all the bottles and discarded them. I think that people need to start pulling their weight before our beautiful beaches and oceans become as unbearable as our landfill here on Maui. The generations to come may never experience the beautiful beaches that I enjoyed as a child and that would be tragic. Our ocean is also a great part of our food source here on Maui. It would be very unfortunate to see all of that diminish all because of careless acts of people.