Photo provided by MSN.com
Floatin’ to make a difference, Marcus Eriksen & Joel Paschal made their way to Hawaii via a raft made of plastic bottles on a 2,600 mile, 3 month journey! Pretty amazing!
These guys, and Anna Cummins, who performed land duties, make up Algalita Marine Research Foundation’s project called, “JUNK.” The trip was a demonstration to help the group on their goal of getting “single-use” plastics banned, or plastics that are unrecyclable.
Along the way, a fish attached itself to the craft. The guys let it tag along for 5 weeks in anticipation of eating it, but when they cut it open, it was full of plastic confetti. If that didn’t justify their cause, I don’t know what would.
Check out the link above from MSN.com to read more of their grusome adventure for a grand cause.