There is pollution in the Puget Sound. For example there is about 14 million pounds that annually gets in to the Puget Sound. What is this caused by? Pollution in the Puget Sound can be dangerous.
What is Pollution?
Pollution is something that is made out of chemicals and things that are bad. For example, garbage and things that are poison. These things affect the Puget Sound.
How Much Pollution?
The pollution that gets in to the Puget Sound is a lot. More than 14 million pounds of garbage and chemicals have made their way in to the Puget Sound per year!!! By 2010 about 521,000 pounds of toxic waste that are including cancer causing chemicals developed toxins and reproductive. Toxins where dumped in to the Washington water ways. In 2008 549 streams and rivers carried water quality from storm water and toxins that were tributaries to the sound. 140,000 of toxic chemicals enter the Puget Sound on an average day.
Is Pollution Dangerous?
If pollution is made out of garbage and chemicals and 14 million pounds annually gets into the Puget Sound it may be very dangerous. But how is it dangerous? It is dangerous because pollution in the Puget Sound could get on food that we eat, it could kill animals and it could make there be less wild life in the water. How could you help the Puget Sound? Pollution in the Puget Sound is caused by animals and people. (Because we are living our lives)
The Puget Sound can be saved because all you need to do is stop doing things that can affect the Puget Sound. For example, littering. How can you help the Puget Sound?
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