SAVE THE OCEANS
Global warming and pollution are becoming an increasingly serious threat to oceans and seas as well as the life they sustain. If you have decided to make greener choices, you are on the right path here, but there are still a few simple things we can do to minimize our own impact on the oceans.
Here are a few tips about what you can do for the seas and oceans:
- Conserve water—don’t waste the precious resource by letting it run while you’re brushing your teeth, for instance. Don’t let taps and hoses run while you’re washing your hands, cars, dishes (use a dishwasher but remember to load it to the fullest, unless you have one of the newer models, which allows for half the load) and remember to turn the shower off while you soap yourself.
- Use efficient appliances and fixtures—such as dishwashers, washing machines, shower heads and faucets that reduce water consumption and low-flow or double flush system toilets.
- Water your yard efficiently—you can do that by watering at the coolest time of the day and using the drip system and planting less demanding plants. Also, you can reuse the dishwater.
- Buy fish that is sustainably caught or farmed to minimize overfishing.
- Prevent water pollution—anything that goes down the drain, runs off the lawns or farms, spills from sewage or septic tanks, eventually ends up in the seas and oceans. Fortunately, there are a few things we can do to minimize the impact and these are:
1. keep cooking grease, oil (including motor oil), solvents, old paint and pesticides out of drains since they are a major cause for the spills. For safe disposal in your area call your local sanitation department
2. clean using natural or eco-friendly (e.g. Seventh Generation, Method, Green Works etc) products instead of the conventional ones containing toxins
3. use non-toxic home and yard pest control products
4. reduce runoffs by maximizing plants, bricks or gravel to absorb water and prevent it from running into storm drains
5. don’t wash pet waste down the drain since it has been discovered that cat feces cause toxoplasmosis in sea otters - Reduce debris in the sea—by not using disposable plastic items and helping to clean the beaches whenever possible.
- Preserve marine life—by not collecting items and jewelry made of corals, sea turtles or mammals, staying away from the reefs and using responsible cruise lines.
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One of the major pollution in open water, including oceans, is caused by lack of sewage treatment by cities. The reason is simple, since most cities (countries) do not treat nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste, while this waste, like fecal waste, exerts an oxygen demand and in all its form is a fertilizer for algae and aquatic plants. This results in eutrophication and eventually in dead zones and destruction of coral reefs.
Why don’t they treat nitrogenous waste? Because of an incorrect applied pollution test developed in 1920.
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