JUNK post...
May. 10th, 2008 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafish
Hmm, a decent picture or a not-so-good picture with an interesting story. The latter today, I guess. We went to the Aquarium today. And there were lots of fishy pictures. However, after we left the Aquarium, we walked around Rainbow Harbor to the park (and my real camera's batteries were dead by this time - time to get new prechargeables, I think; they're only lasting about 10 minutes before they die on me). On the way, we noticed people working on this raft, which had a small plane fuselage sitting on it. Some signage on the dockside explained that the raft's floats are entirely made of plastic bottles, and when constuction is finished, it's due to embark on a cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii (!) in order to raise awareness of the problems of plastic in the ocean ecosystem. The craft is called Junk and the project is being run by the Alagalita Marine Research Foundation. Here's the raft's blog, if you're interested.
More power to em, but yeesh! I'd be leery if it tried to go to Catalina! That's about 20 miles offshore, and they're supposed to be towing it there for a shakedown cruise this coming Sunday.
Rainbow Harbor
Downtown Long Beach CA
Kyocera Switchback phone camera
10 May 2008
This pontoon seems to be made entirely of Nalgene bottles, but there are also plenty of soda and gatorade-type bottles as well. Apparently, water bottles aren't durable enough. However, at the recycling company that donated the bottles, they numbered 80-90% of the total! Something to think about.
