JUNK makes it to Hawaii!!

The environmental duo who sailed across the Pacific Ocean at a snails pace aboard a raft made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310, have landed at their destination: Hawaii.
After 2,600 miles of open ocean that they crossed in 87 days from the Long Beach harbor, Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal, arrived today, "safely, to a throng of cheering supporters, journalists, and videographers," according to their blog site.
The team that works with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, an environmental non-profit that conducts regular tests of plastic in the ocean and its effects on sea life, took off on the journey in June as a way to help spread the word about doing away with single-use and disposable plastic entirely.
Here is what the two had to say about their excursion:
"From our first week of sinking hopes on a sinking raft, through four hurricanes that swept under us, to the unbelievable chance meeting with Roz Savage in the middle of nowhere, we have had quite an adventure. We’ve collected 10 ocean surface samples using our marine debris trawl, managed to snatch a few large pieces of plastic debris that floated under us, and caught fish with stomachs filled with particles of plastic. Plastic is forever, and it’s everywhere."