Sam Bencheghib will educate people along his route from NY to LA about the growing environmental crisis.
in a boat made from plastic bottles in 2017. “And that’s when we realized that no idea is crazy enough. Going down the most polluted river in a plastic bottle kayak is insane, but managed to convince the Indonesian government to send in troops to clean it up,” Sam says.
, the company that cleans up and recycles ocean plastic into clothing . They hope that the Ocean2 Ocean Run will help convince people of the need to take action — now. According to“If we don’t stop our consumption habits, by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. And as of today there are already more micro plastics in our ocean than stars in our galaxy. It’s affecting our water, our corals and our marine life.
“I’m bringing the ocean to citizens around the US who don’t necessarily understand the problem,” Sam says. People also don’t understand what the ocean gives us — for example, every other breath we take is made by phytoplankton that lives there. “A big part of it is that, no matter where you live, inland or by the coasts, everyone contributes to this problem because they’re using plastic. And 80% of the plastic in the ocean comes from rivers and streams.
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