Murding The Environment

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Have you ever thought about the number of affects that litter has on the environment? Just a plastic ring can murder an innocent animal, and just a tiny cigarette butt harms air that we all breathe. The environment is being destroyed slowly everyday due to the lack of people actually caring, and their careless actions. Littering affects the environment tremendously in many ways such as wild animals, our pollution, and the human health. Litter has a huge impact on your community. Litter's Impact on Wild animals. There are so many ways that litter effects wild animals. Not only does litter affect your community and makes it look bad, litter also harms innocent animals. Consequently, there are many animals who are put in danger, poisoned and trapped with trash being littered and invading their habitats. Many animals suffer from trash being improperly disposed. Too many animals are becoming sick, injured, and most just simply dying, and this is all caused by the amount of trash being littered daily. A lot of people do not aware of how their littering habits affect these animals, and sometimes they just do not care. Littering items such as; six pack soda, bottle rings, and plastic in general harms, affects, and takes the lives away from these innocent animals. Animals can also ingest toxic mixtures of substances that intend to destroy and mitigate pest which is also known as pesticides. In fact, motor oil is also a problem effecting wild animals. When wild animals such as; fish ingest this oil it affects their ability to reproduce. Any animal whom catches contact with the oil directly, is instantly affected and death is usually the side affect. For instance an animal cleaning off their fur. In the article Toxins in the food web, by Melissa Kilgore; It basically stated that "there are many animals who the
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