Creative writing: Following garbage from today’s lunch

Author’s Note: Do you know what garbage does to the ocean? Well, my story will be a tale to inform you how your plastic bottles and bags from your lunch today can affect the ocean forever. We hope this story will persuade you to make less use of plastics in your lunch to help the marine animals and their environments. Here is a tale about a plastic bag that came out of an elementary school and is piling up in our ocean.

One day in an elementary school, there was a fifth grade boy who was throwing away his garbage. A plastic bag fell out of his tray and it flew away into the air. That plastic bag had a name, his name was Fred. He was airborne when he woke up. He then said, “What am I doing here?” He realized that he was lost in mid-air. He had no control of himself, he was going wherever the wind took him. He had been traveling for weeks when he finally landed.

Fred had landed at the top of a mountain. There he met another bag named Jenny and a bunch of plastic bottles. His stay on the mountain did not last long. There wasn’t a lot of wind, but in about a month, the wind finally reached the top of the mountain. Once again, Fred was on the move, but now with his friend Jenny. They were then blown by the wind and into the air for eight months before landing for the last time. Without knowing, they had just landed into the Pacific Ocean.

When they first landed they were clear like other plastic bags and bottles. However, after a month of being stuck in the unbearable waves of the ocean, they turned brown and green because they were filled with sand, dirt, and algae. When they first arrived, Fred and Jenny struggled to get out of the water, but they just were not as strong as the powerful waves. After hours of trying to get out of the water, they gave up. During the evening they met a piece of wood that had drifted from Mexico. His name was Alejandro, he was picked up by a scuba diver, but he didn’t feel so lucky. He exclaimed, “HELP MEEEEEEE! I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE!” After a while, Fred and Jenny ripped. When they ripped, everything inside and themselves went all over the ocean. Shortly after, many fish found the plastic and ate it by mistake. Those fish died the next day. Now under the beautiful ocean there is a tall mountain forming of dead fish, plastic bags and bottles and other trash.

The sad thing is that there is no ending to this story. Plastics like Jenny and Fred will never be able to disintegrate or biodegrade by themselves in nature. They will be stuck in mountains of trash under the ocean for hundreds of years. They need humans to recycle them so they don’t end up hurting animals in the sea.

The moral of this story is to ask you to consider not using so much plastic bottles and bags because without even knowing it, you might be contaminating the ocean and hurting animals.