Community | March 21, 2010 | 8 comments

Plastic-bottle boat sets sail to Sydney

source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/22/2852034.htm

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A boat made of 12,000 plastic bottles has set sail on a voyage from San Francisco to Sydney to spread awareness about pollution in the world's oceans.

Environmentalist and banking heir David De Rothschild and a crew set out on the appropriately named Plastiki catamaran.

Their 11,000-nautical mile journey will go past the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a sea of waste about five times the size of Britain.

The Plastiki's 12,000 used water bottles are filled with carbon dioxide to make the vessel durable and buoyant.

The catamaran is powered by solar, wind and sea turbines, and an exercise bike will power its laptops.

- BBC

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/22/2852034.htm
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