Have you ever seen someone throwing the trash that they don’t need or pouring oil into a lake? Thats because they are polluting and littering. Based on the articles, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”

by Catherine Clarke Fox, both authors tell me how Pollution and Littering is different, even though it changes the world and society as we know it. In this essay, I will be showing you how these two articles, “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?” by Catherine Clarke Fox include different information about pollution and littering.

In this paragraph I am going to be showing you just some details from the articles, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox, and how the authors express them differently. In the article, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson, the author specifically states, “What do you do when you see litter on the beach? You pick it up, of course. But artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi doesn’t throw it away. She uses the trash to create giant sculptures of marine animals. The project is called Washed Ashore and its goal is to raise awareness about the effects of littering on ocean animals.“The first thing you need to do is get people’s attention,” Pozzi told TFK [TIME For Kids]. “Giant animals tend to do this very well.”Pozzi started Washed Ashore when she noticed plastics on the beaches in Oregon, where she lives. Plastic doesn’t break down and become absorbed by the environment. Instead, sunlight breaks it down into pieces about the size of plankton, which are tiny organisms that float in the sea. These tiny pieces of plastic enter the food chain. Sea animals eat them and end up dying. Pozzi always loved the ocean and the animals in it, and she wanted to do something to help both.” And in the article, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox, the author expresses “If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes hauling a case or two of bottled water into your home. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.” Both Elise Jonas-Delson and Catherine Clarke Fox express how doing these things that you think are okay to do, are a very bad thing to do because they can effect our environment and change the world in a negative way. In the article, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson, the author states, “One of Angela’s sculptures is a turtle. The turtle’s head is an old garbage can lid. There is netting around it to show that turtles are getting caught in these nets.Another sculpture, called Fish Bite Fish, is shaped like a fish and made out of little bits of plastic that contain tooth and claw marks from the fish and crabs that tried to devour the plastic. “We get so many pieces of plastic like this, I’m on my third Fish Bite Fish [sculpture],” says Pozzi.The Sea Star figure is made of glass and plastic bottles, some of which are from the Beijing Olympics of 2008. The bottles started landing on the beaches in Oregon in 2010, and they still are arriving. The Sea Star acts as a musical instrument. You put water in the bottles and hit them to make music.” In comparison, the article, Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?by Catherine Clarke Fox, the author states “So why don’t more people drink water straight from the kitchen faucet? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that’s not true. In the United States, local governments make sure water from the faucet is safe. There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may leach into the water.People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a refillable steel container instead of plastic.Plastic bottle recycling can help—instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change.” These two details are alike because they each talk about how instead of throwing trash on the ground or trying to create ways to save this water and trash to try to help our world. In the article, “Art for Ocean Animals” by Elise Jonas-Delson, the author explains to me “The Sea Star figure is made of glass and plastic bottles, some of which are from the Beijing Olympics of 2008. The bottles started landing on the beaches in Oregon in 2010, and they still are arriving. The Sea Star acts as a musical instrument. You put water in the bottles and hit them to make music.” And in the article, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox, the author explains, “But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.” These two details are very similar for many reasons. Such as, both Catherine Clarke Fox and Elise Jonas-Delson explain how water bottles are landing in places that they shouldn’t be like on a beach. The authors also explain how you should pick up a water bottle even if it isn’t yours. Just think that you could be saving a life. That is how the articles, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox are extremely similar.

In this paragraph I am going to be showing you how “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox are different in many accounts. In the article, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson the author explains, “Pozzi doesn’t collect all the trash by herself. When people spot litter on beaches, they drop it off at Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education, in Bandon, Oregon. Then Angela and her volunteers begin the process of turning the waste into art. Everything used for the sculptures is found on the beach, except for the framework and the materials used to connect the litter together.Who does Pozzi believe can save marine animals? “Kids have a lot of power,” she told TFK. “They are the ones that can make things happen. I really believe it. TIME For Kids caught up with the Washed Ashore tour in Sausalito, California. The exhibit is currently in Chula Vista, California, from December 8 until July of next year.” In contrast, the article, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox, the author specifically explains, “But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.So why don’t more people drink water straight from the kitchen faucet? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that’s not true. In the United States, local governments make sure water from the faucet is safe. There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may leach into the water.People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a refillable steel container instead of plastic.Plastic bottle recycling can help—instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.” These two details are different because in the article, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson, the author explains how they use all of the trash that they find and make it into a sculpture and makes it useful, yet in the article, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox, the author explains how they don’t do anything with the trash that they find, they just tell you why you should recycle the bottles. In the article, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson, the author explains, “Pozzi doesn’t collect all the trash by herself. When people spot litter on beaches, they drop it off at Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education, in Bandon, Oregon. Then Angela and her volunteers begin the process of turning the waste into art. Everything used for the sculptures is found on the beach, except for the framework and the materials used to connect the litter together.” Yet, in the article, “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?by Catherine Clarke Fox, the author states, “So why don’t more people drink water straight from the kitchen faucet? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that’s not true. In the United States, local governments make sure water from the faucet is safe. There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may leach into the water.” These two details are very different, in the article “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson, the author writes about how Pozzi doesn’t pick up the trash by herself; every time someone sees trash they pick it up and bring it to the Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education, in Bandon, Oregon. Just so that the trash doesn’t hurt any marine animals or even people. This concludes the information about how the articles “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox, about how the authors express the difference of both articles.

In conclusion, next time you see trash on the beach pick it up, and if you have water that you don’t need stand and think of the people in the world that don’t have water and just try to recycle and it will change the world even if you think its just by a tiny bit, it changes the lives of millions. Continue to recycle if you do and if you don’t recycle, try to because these animals and people, they need it. Both articles, “Art for Ocean Animals”by Elise Jonas-Delson and “Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?”by Catherine Clarke Fox, are very similar and different even though they express the same movement of to try something, and it might make the world a better place if you just try. I hope you enjoyed my essay. With every piece of trash one life can be gone, remember that the next time you throw something on a street, or anywhere else. I hope this essay changed your thinking of how pollution and littering changes the world and civilians lives.