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After finishing college, recent graduates often move to new cities, explore different career paths, start their own projects, or travel the world. But Sam Bencheghib has different plans: running.
The 22-year-old — who graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this spring — is embarking on a six-month journey that spans 3,100 miles in an effort to raise awareness about plastic pollution. Bencheghib plans to run from New York City’s Battery Park area to Santa Monica, California, stopping at city halls along the way where he will ask mayors to sign a no-plastic pledge, ABC News reported.
Bencheghib first noticed the world’s growing plastic problem when he moved from Paris to Bali, Indonesia, 10 years ago.
"We would kind of go to the beach every day and realize there's trash everywhere," he told ABC News. "We were paddling in trash. That's where my passion for the oceans and my want to fight against plastic pollution really began."
Original article by Sushmita Roy - Source Global Citizen
