Imagine a plastic catamaran made out of 12500 plastic bottles! Well the Plastiki catamaran, brainchild of an heir to Britain's Rothschild banking fortune has just completed a 15,000 Km Journey.
The Plastiki set of form San Francisco in March with a crew of six people travelled through a waste strewn area of the North Pacific and stopped in the line Island, Western Samoa and New Caledonia before leaving for Australia.
According to the United Nations Environment Program more than 15,000 pieces of debris litter every square kilometre of the world's oceans, and another 6.4 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into seas each year.
After reading the report by The United Nations report on marine ecosystems and biodiversity, and the realization "there are just these amazing human fingerprints all over our oceans", de Rothschild hatched the idea of travelling the ocean in a plastic catamaran.
The Plastiki set of form San Francisco in March with a crew of six people travelled through a waste strewn area of the North Pacific and stopped in the line Island, Western Samoa and New Caledonia before leaving for Australia.
According to the United Nations Environment Program more than 15,000 pieces of debris litter every square kilometre of the world's oceans, and another 6.4 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into seas each year.
After reading the report by The United Nations report on marine ecosystems and biodiversity, and the realization "there are just these amazing human fingerprints all over our oceans", de Rothschild hatched the idea of travelling the ocean in a plastic catamaran.
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