Recently a boat set sale for the first time. But this isn't just any old boat, it's named the Plastiki because it is made out of 12,000 recycled gas filled plastic bottles. It's started it's journey and is making it's way from California, USA to Sydney, Australia. That's about an 11,000 mile journey.
The big boss behind it all is David de Rothschild, adventurer, activist and founder of Adventure Ecology who says that it he's doing it because waste is a huge problem on earth removed from the consciousness of too many people. His goal is to raise public awareness about waste and we need to start rethinking waste as a resource. It's taken over 3 years for David and his crew to bring the Plastiki to life.
The features of the Plastiki also help separate it from the average sailing boat. It has one long cabin made out of repurposed plastic containing all the must-haves for a sea voyage. That has never been tried out at sea, but then again not much on this boat has been; for example the boat is solar AND wind powered and to top that off it has a little pedals that you can push like a bike to power the boat. Expedition Plastiki will hopefully change the way people think about the waste we produce.
13 comments:
Good job on this, Rinzin. You've got a thorough description of the boat's features, plus details about the real reason behind the project-call attention to the amount of trash in the ocean. What a problem, eh?
Nice work Rinzin, nice info. The trash has to be used, just like JIS, we are doing the bottle and can competition.
Yash
Great work Rinzin. Your plastiki blog was epic. I didn't know that the plastiki had been 3 years in the making!
very interesting writing! Nice word choice!
nice job Rinzin! you have put much informastions on the writing!
Good job!
I think that you did really good by mentioning
All the things about, even little things!
Good Job
Nice job it was very detailed.wish I can write like that
Good job Rinzin.
I liked how you described the way the plastiki worked and looked it was very detailed.
Great Job Rinzin!!!!!!!! I really liked how you explained the goal and why they are doing this very clearly good job!!!!!!
WOW!! NICE MAN!!!! strong language there, hehe
the description is really specific (wich is good) ;)
and theres lots of info, nice job.
Daniel
Good job Rinzin! Your vocabularly is nice and strong and your information that you have is very detailed
Wow i think you did very very well on this you explained in great detail and did an awsome job........
Really good. Lots of detail, I did not know you used little pedals to power the boat.
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