If you are wondering what to do this Saturday, why not come join the fun at Edgewater Park? Saturday October 3 is the Lake Erie Boat Float. Inspired partly by Marcus Erikson, the Biodiversity Alliance sponsored the Boat Float to raise awareness of the issues surrounding plastics waste and its damage to the water ecosystems. From their site…
In 2003 Marcus Eriksen sailed down the Mississippi River on a plastic raft called Bottle Rocket
In 2008 he sailed across the Pacific Ocean on a raft made of 15,000 plastic bottles called JUNK
In 2009 he will sail Lake Erie on a raft made of bottles called The COLA-HOGA!
I think that if they have this event again next year, then we will have to participate. All elements of the construction need to be made from post consumer materials. I can’t wait to see what some people have come up with to create a boat out of pop bottles…
Tags: boat float, plastics, recycling, water
