Informatinal Project
Informatinal Project
Informatinal Project
Many of you might have heard about deforestation, rising sea levels, greenhouse gases,
melting icebergs, toxic waste, and trash islands. But have you ever heard about ocean
dumping? Do you know what is it? Have you ever heard of it? Those are questions that I
asked my friends that are my age. A large majority of my friends didn’t know what ocean
dumping was. Some of them had heard about it once or twice but didn't know exactly what
it could be. That is the problem that I have, my generation, the next generation of adults
doesn't know what is going on in their ocean. They are clueless and it is concerning to me.
How will the next generation of adults guide future generations if they don't know what's
happening around them? It is a serious problem, it is either they aren't getting educated
about it, they are ignoring it, or the country/news is covering it up with bigger/fake news. It
Big companies release toxins and chemicals into the ocean and one of those companies
is Tepco. Tepco is an electric power company in Japan that is located in the city of
Ocean.
threatening/dangerous to wildlife and citizens. But there are more than 1000 tanks of waste,
and that amounts to about one million tons. A tsunami damaged the nuclear plant badly and
Because of that experience, the company decided that dumping the toxins into the ocean was
the best option because if another natural disaster were to occur it would spill the tanks onto
land and it would be harmful to humans. On August 24th, 2023 they started to dump the
toxic waste into the Pacific Ocean and said it would take 30 years to complete.
Other countries had a lot to say about this matter, especially China. China said, “that
Japan is treating the ocean as a private sweater and that they had selfish interests above the
long-term being of the entire humanity”. I agree with China, Japan is dumping a million
tons of waste into the ocean without knowing the consequences, Scientists said that dumping
the toxins into the ocean wouldn't make it more radioactive than it already is. But if you
Korea a close neighbor of Japan had a few things to say too, a citizen Park Hee-Jun
said “The government enforces a strong no-littering policy at sea… But now the government
is not saying a word (to Japan) about the wastewater flowing into the ocean,”-(Park Hee-Jun,
BBC), "Some of the officials say we should remain quiet if we don't want to make consumers
even more anxious. I think that's nonsense."- (Park Hee-Jun, BBC). People in other countries
are concerned as well, it isn't just the citizens in Japan that are being affected. Korea's food
culture will have a negative effect alongside other countries such as India, The Philippines,
Vietnam, Thailand, etc. But Asia isn't the only continent that will be affected, it could be the
Citizens in Japan have voiced their concerns. They said that they fear their livelihoods
and that they now fear consuming seafood and avoiding it. If citizens stop eating seafood it
can damage the economic system. Some of the consequences are that fishermen will lose
customers, they will not make any money for their families, the country will lose jobs, and
there will be a big negative impact on their culture's food. As for ocean life, Ocean dumping
affects the coral reefs, The coral reefs aren't just plants that are in the ocean. They are home
to many different species of fish. If those fish lose their homes they will not have anywhere to
live. The coral reefs give shelter and if the fish lose that they are going to be hunted, it is like
us losing our houses; if we lose them we will not be safe, we will be out in the open in danger.
Companies are Ocean dumping chemicals like mercury, lead, and other chemicals. These
chemicals can affect the coral reef's reproduction, growth rate, feeding, etc.
Ocean dumping is a huge problem in today's world and Tepco is only 1 of the
thousands of companies companies that are doing it. We have to let future generations pay
attention to this problem, to make them care about it because if the harmful chemicals and
toxins continue we won't have an ocean in which we can have a beach day or go fishing in.
All we will have is an ocean that no one will be able to go into. An ocean where it is filled
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May 2024.
Wong, Tessa. “Fukushima: What are the concerns over wastewater release?” BBC, 24
2024.
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