by kate |
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.
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Wow, I had heard of the raft made of plastic bottles, but didn’t know about the poor little fish who was filled with plastic. Definitely motivation for them to continue their journey and share information with as many people as possible.
I like that their food staples were fish and peanut butter.
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