The BBC reports that a London woman will attempt to ride a stand-up paddle board the length of the Hudson River this week, collecting water samples to test for microplastic levels as she goes. Lizzie Carr, an environmentalist from England said she picked the United States because this country is "one of the world's biggest consumers of single use plastic." The 170-mile trip down the Hudson River should take eight days and starts Sept. 6. Carr previously was the first person to paddle board the length of England by herself in 2016. "This is a man-made problem," she said of all the plastic thrown away in the world. "Eighty percent of marine debris starts from inland sources, including rivers like the Hudson, before it eventually flows out to the ocean.... I want my journey along the Hudson to motivate people to take action, so together, we can make a real difference to resolve the global problem of plastics choking out seas." Read the full story at the BBC website.