Scientists set sail in bottle-boat to draw attention to plastic problems
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Marine scientists Joel Pascal and Marcus Erikson are sailing from California to Hawaii on a boat made entirely out of plastic bottles - 15,000 plastic bottles, to be exact. (NPR's Day to Day reports on their mission here.) The name of their boat is "Junk," and the two see the stunt as a way to wake people up about the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean. Every time they go out in the Pacific to carry out research, they report, they see more and more bottles and bags floating around.
As Joel Pascal says in the radio story, every time he speaks in public about the problem, he gets phone calls from people with wild scifi fixes for the issue, like dragging the whole ocean for trash. "People really crave this technological fix, but it's a behavorial fix," he says. "We need to stop using plastic the way we are."
Note to self: wash out and reuse your Ziplocs even more religiously...
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