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Most people tend to think that all the pollution we cause somehow dissapears and we never see it again. However, that is not the case. Pollution, mostly from run-off, leaves quickly from our streets and neighborhoods. Run-off happens when heavy rains come and wash all the oil, garbage, and other things that have accumulated since the last rainfall into the Puget Sound. Of course it goes through drains first, but the result is still the same. This leaves the land on which we live pretty clean. However, the Puget Sound and the wildlife living in it recieves that pollution when we rid ourselves of it. All that car oil, food waste, and garbage gets absorbed right into the bottom of the food chain. Those toxic chemicals are readily absorbed and then go through bioaccumulation and biomagnification to get more and more toxic to animals. The result is astonishing. Hundreds of top-of-the-food-chain animals getting killed off by pollution every year. |