This April, Junk Ride 2009 will be cycling 2,000 miles from Vancouver to Tijuana to discuss plastic marine debris, and larger issues of sustainability. Plastic Soup or Garbage Patch?  Whatever you call it, the obscene amount of plastic swirling around in our oceans is killing marine life and threatening our health. Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation will ride down the West Coast, giving away samples of polluted ocean surface to educators, organizations and legislators to raise awareness of the problems and call for an end to The Age of Disposable Plastic.

The 100 samples of plastic and plankton Junk Ride will hand out, were collected during previous Algalita voyages.  And for their most recent project, JunkRaft, members of Algalita sailed from Los Angeles to Hawaii on 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310, to bring international attention to the problems of plastic debris.   Check it out:

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