The pollution of our oceans in “An ocean Plastics Field Trip for Corporate Executives”

In “An ocean Plastics Field Trip for Corporate Executives”, the author uses enumerations to emphasize the gravity of the situation and to help the reader understand how bad the pollution of water is getting. The most effective example of enumeration in the text is when he lists every plastic item the corporate executives found on a beach. “Bottle caps, toothbrushes, tires, coolers, crates, ropes, nets, glue bottles, soda bottles [...]” (Jacobsen 3) and the list goes on for 5 more lines. This enumeration shows the readers that even if they recycle plastic items most of it doesn’t get properly…