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Raft Made Of Junk Crosses Pacific

Sailors Seek To Bring Awareness To Plastic In Ocean

POSTED: 7:53 am EDT August 28, 2008

A sailing raft made of recycled junk carrying two men on an estimated 2,300-mile trip across the Pacific Ocean has made it to Hawaii's Ala Wai Harbor.

After three months at sea, what has been dubbed the JUNK raft made it to Hawaii, KITV in Honolulu reported.

The JUNK raft is made from 15,000 plastic bottles and the fuselage of an old Cessna 310. The two eco-mariners wanted to call attention to the environmental problem that plastic poses.

"The whole purpose is to bring attention to the plastic marine debris issue," JUNK sailor Marcus Eriksen said.

As they sailed, they found tiny plastic debris across the ocean.

"So, there's a small particulate of plastic. Little, small, pea-sized fragments was in every sample. So, we have in 50 years turned our ocean into a plastic soup," Eriksen said.

The tiny plastic particles were even in the stomachs of the fish they caught.

"The solution, we think, is to end the age of disposable plastic like plastic bags, water bottles. ... Single-use plastics have no use in modern society," Eriksen said.

The two JUNK sailors said they hope their voyage will inspire everyone to consider that when we throw plastic away, it most likely ends up in the ocean.

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