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eco: World Oceans Day
|by Elise Jones
As the days begin to warm and our thoughts
drift to summer, many of us are planning our
yearly vacations to the beach. The ocean seems
to beckon us no matter how far we live from it.
Yet, as we all know, the ocean has endured its
share of horror stories: from oil spills to rising
water temperatures to the Great Pacific Garbage
Patch. As a society we need to get better at reusing what we buy if we’re going to continue to
enjoy our beaches and oceans.
Five years ago, the United Nations decided to
designate a day each year in order to focus attention on the earth’s body of water that serves
to connect us all. This day is called World
Oceans Day and is celebrated annually on June
8. The goal of World Ocean