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But he also witnessed “endless trails of plastic trash,” from milk crates and polystyrene foam to an entire portable restroom. In 2003, he launched his raft, named Bottle Rocket, from the Mississippi’s headwaters at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, heading south toward its mouth at Venice, Louisiana.ĭuring the five-month trip, Eriksen saw an abundance of wildlife along with breathtaking scenery. He welded two bicycles into a paddle wheel and salvaged a seat from a junkyard Ford Mustang. More than a decade passed before Eriksen lashed together 232 plastic bottles to form the bottom of a homemade pontoon raft. Hunkered down in the sand, surrounded by burning oil wells, the young Marine vowed that, if he survived the Gulf War, he would go home and embark on a classic adventure: rafting down the Mississippi River. MARCUS ERIKSEN was sitting in a foxhole in Kuwait in 1991 when he hatched a plan that guided the rest of his life. This albatross carcass was one of scores recently found packed with plastic trash on Midway Island, where scientists estimate 99 percent of the birds have some plastic in their stomachs. From the Arctic to Antarctica, ocean debris is killing marine wildlife-but we still have the power to stop plastic pollution.
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