The Caribbean Sea. Naturally, the first few thoughts and images you’d have is the image of the sea as spotless and immaculate, a vivid sapphire sea that puts the honorable sky to shame and disgrace… Or something close along the lines of that. The enchanting paradise of the Caribbean Sea has been demolished and shattered by the brainless, thick-headed and unconcerned actions of mankind.
Why may you ask? Well because of our foolish mistakes an underwater photographer, Caroline Power, made the shocking but rather eye-opening discovery that there is a blanket of plastic waste consuming huge sections of the sea in the Caribbean Sea near the island of Roatan.
Nothing can illustrate the staggering quantities of plastic bottles, cutlery and polystyrene plates floating on the once called elegant and pure Caribbean Sea.
The heartbroken photographer only had one thing to say “This has to stop!”. A vast amount of people also shared this view when a picture was posted on many social media platforms.
If outrageous pictures are not enough to change the minds or even lifestyles of our kind, then mankind itself will be the reason for the destruction of Earth. Now is the time for a change. We could save our home, our Earth by doing small changes like reducing the amount of plastic we use. For example, plastic bottles. With almost 36 million plastic bottles being sold every day in just the UK, and less than half being recycled, reduction of plastic bottles is an essential part for the brighter future of the sea.
By Mahnoor Ahmed from Ricards and Rutlish Sixth form
