Lizzie Carr was the first person to standup paddleboard the length of England through its waterways. So 160 miles to clean up New York, starting next week, should be smooth sailing.
Part of her ongoing efforts to raise awareness for ocean pollution, Carr will paddle from Albany in upstate New York to Riverside Park in New York City. The avid SUPer and cancer survivor will take water samples every 10 kilometers. Those will be sent to Hudson River Park Trust for analysis while the whole mission is tracked by Plastic Patrol.
The SUPer has a short but successful history of this kind of work. After being diagnosed with stage-two cancer, Carr quit her day job and dove headlong into giving back to the environment. She used SUPing first as therapy, then as her platform to create a wave behind her eco-cause.
Carr’s History of SUP Cleanups
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Carr was also the first female to solo paddleboard across the English Channel, from Rye Harbour to Boulogne in France. Every fourth mile, she took water samples to analyze microplastics in the channel. Her time — 24 miles in just 7 hours — was a secondary accomplishment to the global conversation she created about dirty waterways.
Plastic Patrol, APP Team Up in the US
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