The Plastic Problem

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The
Plastic
Problem

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By Lilly Jensen

“Ok Grace Face let's go outside and play,” I said to my friend “Can we just play on the VR for just a little longer?” Grace begged “Fine!”“Yay!”Grace exclaimed as she put on her favorite game called “Sea life”. I went first and played as this fish and that’s when I saw that there was plastic everywhere. I took the VR off and from the look on Grace’s face, I knew that she was thinking the same thing as I was. That we have to help get rid of that plastic.

Splash! The paddle boat hit the water. We hopped into the boat with all the supplies we needed. I grabbed the paddles and paddled toward the open sea. Splash! A big wave crashed into the boat and almost knocked Grace off.“We should head back!” I yelled. “Yeah we should!” Grace yelled back. So I started to paddle back to Grace’s grandma’s house. On the way to Graces grandma’s house, there was a girl with a leaf blower. She yelled,“Do you guys need some help?”“Yeah we do,” me and Grace yelled back at the same time, “Can we use your leaf blower?” “Only if I can come with,” she yelled. We nodded our heads and she hopped in the boat. “So why do you need my leaf blower?”

“Watch,” Grace said as she held the leaf blower at the back of the boat facing down and turned it on. All of a sudden, the boat picked up speed and in a few moments, we were out in the open sea. Me and Grace got our nets and gave one to the girl that introduced herself as Aria and started to net up all of the plastic in layers and bagged it up. After an hour, we made a pretty big dent in the plastic-y sea but when we were heading back to Graces grandma's house to drop the plastic off, a big dump truck full of stuff backed up to the edge of the land near the sea.

Splash! A bunch of plastic entered the sea and erased all of the hard work that we put in. I turned the boat to head toward the dump truck but I was too late and the only thing that I could see was a company logo. Wait, that’s it! We could go to that company and chew them out for dumping plastic into the ocean! I headed back to Grace’s grandma’s house and on the way, I told Grace and Aria about my plan and they agreed to the plan.

When we got to Grace’s grandma’s house, we went over the plan five times and looked up the logo. We got the destinations and hopped on some bikes that were in the garage. After forty-five minutes, we got to the company that was dumping plastic into the sea, we found out that this company was the only company that was dumping into the sea by us so we figured out that if we stop this company, we could get rid of all the plastic in the sea so we asked the company and after some debates, we agreed that if they stopped dumping their garbage into the sea, we will not shut go to the government to shut down their company for the dirty things that they do. When they stopped dumping things into the sea, the sea cleared up in no time.