Recycle Plastic Bottles = Boat

This is so cool!

By Brandon Griggs and Jeff King

CNN

SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) — Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles through treacherous seas.

This 60-foot sailboat, the Plastiki, is being built from more than 12,000 recycled plastic bottles.

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You’d have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying to make a point.

De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind vessel, now being built on a San Francisco pier, will boost recycling of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic.

Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic.  Read full article »

~ by digitalpoetry on March 9, 2009.