Trash Vortex: How Plastic Pollution Is Choking the World's Oceans

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Millions of tons of plastic slip into oceans every year. Some floats and travels slowly with the currents endangering the health of marine animals. The rest is hardly visible but is far more dangerous. Tiny bits of plastic sprinkle the ocean's surface or mix into the sandy seafloor and beaches. It ends up inside birds fish and other animals harming them-and ultimately humans. Experts struggle with fear and hope as they work to stop the flood of plastic threatening living organisms across the globe.

Danielle Smith-Llera's former life as a teacher led her to write books for young people. She has taught literature, writing, history, and visual arts to students ranging from elementary school to college. Danielle studied English and Visual Arts at Harvard University and exhibits her artwork internationally. As the spouse of a diplomat, she and her family have lived in Washington D.C., New Delhi, India and Kingston, Jamaica.

...traces the events that has made the dangers of plastic pollution in our ocean a call to action. . . .Smith-Llera provides a history of plastics and how our dependency on this synthetic material has grown since the 1930's when it was used for home insulation, threads for nylon stockings and toothbrush bristles. Throughout the narrative the disastrous environmental impact throughout the world is well explained and the reasons behind laws that were past to regulate water pollution, including the Clean Water Act of 1972.-- "The Nonfiction Detectives"