1. Plastic pollution in the Indian Ocean. The greatest ocean pollution, the Indian Ocean has been recorded to cover about ten million square kilometers of the ocean which could roughly be estimated as the size of the United States of America. This was discovered when scientists were attempting to find out how pollutants are carried in the atmosphere of the Indian Ocean (Astudillo, 1999). Back in the year 1988, various patches of garbage were discovered floated over numerous areas of the Indian Ocean. Most of these were consisting of many forms of plastic waste. The reason for investigating the amount of plastic waste in the ocean was as a result of the increase in human activities along the shores of the ocean. If plastic waste was existing in high amounts at the shores, this would mean that some of the plastic would be found present in the ocean. 2. The Causes of the plastic pollution in the oceans. Due to the increase in plastic consumption in the countries surrounding this ocean, the rate of pollution has increased in the ocean. This has been as a result of poor waste management by industries in the countries and lack of human responsibility. The governments involved in controlling this pollution have integrated rules with which persons using the oceans are to follow although most of these rules are not kept. There exists very few instances where consequent actions have been taken on those who break the rules thus the result of high pollution rates. 3. Effects of plastic debris in oceans. In the oceans, plastics start to degrade and in the process release toxic chemicals like bisphenol A which together with polystyrene pieces results in deaths from the mighty whale to the microscopic organisms in the water (Hester, 2011). According to a report by Global Industry analysts done in 2008, our global plastic consumption worldwide was estimated to be 250 million tons. They also statistically determined that this number would reach 298 mi