Plastic bottle-raft made its way across the Pacific Ocean

You've gotta love their way of getting their message to the world! I have not seem their website before but will definitely check it out. Yes it is a terrible state of affairs when you consider the amount of non-biodegradable waste in our oceans. I have read about a massive "holding area" somewhere in the Pacific Ocean I think where a lot of this plastic ends up due to the tides etc. Apparently it is like a massive wasteleand of every type of plastic and debris imagineable. The effect on ocean life is devastating so it is great that these men are doing all they can to raise awareness of the issue. I hope that many people throughout the world take notice and act on this.

That is definitely amazing, I had seen a documentary on how waste is affecting the oceans, they were showing how turtles mistake plastic packages for jellyfish their favourite food and were eating the bags and then dying as the plastic filled their stomachs and how a set of volunteers were attempting to help. Another was that broken nylon nets that take a huge amount of time to decompose when they break stay in the oceans for years and continuously trap animals, and debris. Like they say, in their video, recycling and reducing is key. It is impossible to remove or prevent any plastic from entering the water system be it in rivers that due to flooding drag debris into the oceans or beach fronts that are hit by strong waves that do the same, these are acts of nature, unpredictable and unstoppable. That is why it is so important to eliminate all preventable pollution, for this reason it is so important to recycle, reutilize and reduce packaging, I recycle basically everything that I can, fortunately I live in an area that has several recycling centres and collection points. The problem is that in many other areas these services are not available, so the end destination are municipal dumps which has a whole other set of problems. Though many people do recycle and care for the environment, generally the only way to get big industry to cooperate is to make it viable and that is what is so important about consumers if consumers prefer more environmental packaging then the markets will reflect this, in a totally different are but where it is noticeable glass and paper packages which have become more compact, in this way saving millions for the producer and helping the environment at the same time. Another is the study into the use of other materials, many years ago I saw a documentary how they were using special rice compound to make disposable soup bowls , this was many years ago and I have not seen or heard anything further. Many, many congratulations to them for making the trip safely and I hope that they achieved their goals.