JUNK: Sailing to Hawaii on 15,000 plastic bottles

Click here to see the story of a raft made of plastic bottles and a Cessna airplane hull sailed by three people from Long Beach, CA to Honolulu in the summer of 2008.

They observed and sampled the surface of the ocean that, as a result of the billions of tons of plastic waste world-wide, has now become a “plastic soup” and presents a major challenge for us to clean up.