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A sailboat made of 12thousands plastic bottles left San Francisco 19 days ago and now is travelling in the Pacific Ocean in the direction of Sydney. David de Rothschild organized this adventurous trip to show how recycling is important.
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David de Rothschild and Jo Royle dropped by Current HQ's to chat about their daring plans to sail from San Francisco to Sydney in a vessel made from plastic bottles as part of their mission to educate the world of the perils of plastic.
In this 3 minute excerpt of the interview, David and Jo describe their mission, and play stat attack on plastics. You can watch more excerpts of the interview and the interview in it's entirety at current.com/plastiki.
In June 2006, the expedition leader, David de Rothschild read the devastating UNEP report, ‘Action Urged to Avoid Deep Trouble in the Deep Seas’ which detailed the devastation caused by waste in our oceans. This report fueled the idea of what would eventually become Plasiki – an expedition which will visit areas affected by global warming and rising oceans capturing the worlds imagination and effecting change.
But if plastiki is ringing a bell in your eco-geek memory, it might be because you are thinking about one we of the sources of inspiration for the project, Thor Heyerdahl’s legendary 1947 expedition, The Kon-Tiki, where he made a raft that floated/sailed from Peru to Polynesia to replicate pre-Columbian South American sailors…
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Current Green caught up with David de Rothschild and Jo Royle to figure out why on earth they would try to build a boat made from reused plastic bottles. In this short video segment, David talks about one fo the driving forces behind what inspired the initiative: to raise awareness about the dangers of plastics (we'll be posting 7 segments over the course of the next week, so stay tuned).
In June 2006, the expedition leader, David de Rothschild read the devastating UNEP report, 'Action Urged to Avoid Deep Trouble in the Deep Seas' which detailed the devastation caused by waste in our oceans. This report fueled the idea of what would eventually become Plasiki - an expedition which will visit areas affected by global warming and rising oceans capturing the worlds imagination and effecting change.
But if plastiki is ringing a bell in your eco-geek memory, it might be because you are thinking about one we of the sources of inspiration for the project, Thor Heyerdahl's legendary 1947 expedition, The Kon-Tiki, where he made a raft that floated/sailed from Peru to Polynesia to replicate pre-Columbian South American sailors...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="613" caption="We visited plastiki last Novemeber while it was still in the process of being built. "][/caption]
From the plastiki website:
90 percent of ocean debris is plastic - so its fitting that the expedition focuses on it and the plastic bottle epitomises the absurdity of our throwaway society. Some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year; in the US alone nearly $11 billion is spent on over 8 billion gallons of bottled water.
In bottle production alone, more than 70 million bottles of water consumed each day in the U.S. and 1.5 million barrels of oil is used over the course of one year, resulting in about 22 billion empty plastic bottles being trashed. It's something that, when you dig a little deeper into it, you realize that the facts just don't add up, for example, it takes between three to five liters of water to make a one liter bottle of water and, then you need to include the energy needed for transportation, just to produce something that ultimately ends up in the ground. When you think that plastic bottles are 100 percent recyclable and yet only 20 percent are actually recycled, there is a lot of work to be done on that area.
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David de Rothschild, adventurer, environmentalist and expedition leader of Plastiki and his co-skipper, Jo Royal, will be in our studio tomorrow. They'll be talking about their upcoming trip to Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating pile of plastic and garbage debris in the South Pacific, and their unusual plans to set sail on a catamaran made from reclaimed post-consumer plastic bottles.
As you know, we love to include you in the interview, so if you would like to join us, leave your questions below by Thursday at 12p and you will be golden.
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It's hard not to be smitten with someone who sees an organic connection between extreme adventure, the creative arts, and the environment; and can even make jokes about undies sound charming. So in case you haven't made the connection yourself, I'm referencing David de Rothschild and his organization Adventure Ecology. Last night they held their first formal event in the newly allocated wharehouse where they will build Plastiki.
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David was quick to point out that he is but one person of a team (in case you are wondering about the presense of women on the expedition: Jo Royle, renowed British yachtswoman, has signed on as skipper, is just left of the photo, and one of Thor Heyerdahl's grandchildren is out of frame on the right).
Plastiki is a homage to Kon-Tiki, an expedition that sailed the Pacific in 1947 on a raft of logs and hemp ropes and led by Thor Heyerdahl. A documentary of the expedition was the center piece to the evening, and set the tone and gave a visual credence to that the expedition they are preparing to embark upon is indeed a dangerous one.
There was a time when you could ask a mountaineer, "Why are you climbing that dangerous mountain?" and they would reply, "Because it's there." This is not the case for Adventure Ecology, as the expedition is designed to bring awareness to ocean pollution, and more specifically The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Telegraph writes, "According to the United Nations Environment Programme, plastic is killing a million seabirds a year, and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles. It kills by entanglement, most commonly in discarded synthetic fishing lines and nets. It kills by choking throats and gullets and clogging up digestive tracts, leading to fatal constipation. Bottle caps, pocket combs, cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, cottonbud shafts, toothbrushes, toys, syringes and plastic shopping bags are routinely found in the stomachs of dead seabirds and turtles. A study of fulmar carcases that washed up on North Sea coastlines found that 95 per cent had plastic in their stomachs – an average of 45 pieces per bird" (Random side note: if you are wanting to explain the Pacific Garbage Patch to a child or in less devastating language, a favorite is the short and fun film the Great Pacific Garbage Patch).
It was an interesting experience sitting in the audience: you know these people want to change the world, you can feel that they are doing it through something they love, and have tapped a medium that captures the imagination. And... you can't help but want them to win: to design a boat that...works...to inspire people to change their activities, to inspire future projects, to make an actual impact; and...you also can't help but have a morbid fascination about the potential to fail. And that might just keep us watching, and is the brilliance behind the design of the expedition: every time we tune in to see if the boat is still afloat, we'll learn about the clean up activity in Hawaii, and be reminded that as we sit at our desks, snacking on the cheese stick or scooping yogurt from the mini container as we consume the daily news...we'll be poisoning whales, strangling birds, and destroying the planet for future generations.
Ahhh but no reason to leave on a tragic note: Adventure Ecology is hosting an art competition: Make Trash into Treasure!
The Trash into Treasure Art Contest wants to see what videos or music you're able to make out of all the junk in the world. In today's world we have a wealth of resources that are often overlooked as useless junk and garbage. The goal of the Trash into Treasure contest is to create Art that gets people to rethink how we use and reuse the stuff we create.
DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT PST FRIDAY MAY 1 2009
FOR MORE INFORMATION & COMPLETE GUIDELINES CONTACT: heidi@smartartcompetition.com
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It’s hard not to be smitten by someone who sees an organic connection between extreme adventure, the creative arts, and the environment, and can even make jokes about undies sound charming. So in case you haven’t made the connection yourself, I’m referencing David de Rothschild and his organization Adventure Ecology. Last night they held their first formal event in the newly allocated wharehouse where they will build Plastiki....
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