HONOLULU — 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 following video is of their departure from the Long Beach Aquarium in California.
The tons of waste plastic in our oceans is a serious problem and will get much worse.
Found by MJ.
Instead of Kon-Tiki it’s Trash-Tiki…
It would be “nice to know” the potential for harm from all that plastic. Few things “just go away.”
The harm is said to be that as the plastic merely physically breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces, it will eventually enter the cellular structure of plants and animals. Plastic components often mimic hormones.
Shouldn’t be that hard to put the right size plastic into an aquarium and see what happens?
Maybe another job for MythBusters: Plastic out of sight, is out of mind? The Moon Landing Truthers was an excellent show. Thanks for the heads up.
“Raft of Floating Plastic Trash makes it to Hawaii”
Are the Bushs vacationing in Hawaii via yacht?
Damn, stupid Americans with their bottled water!!!
Good find hhopper.
#4 – zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Trust me… Americans aren’t the only ones drinking bottled water…
#3 – Trash? No, that’s all the people leaving Denver after last night’s snoozer.
Owned again.
# 6
Go back to your overpriced PC Clone.
Pwned.