Plastiki

By: Charise G. Bollozos


David de Rothschild a British environmentalist wants to deliver a message in a bottle. He has built a 60 foot long boat made out of plastic bottles. The boat will sail from San Francisco to Australia. They named the boat "Plastiki".

The boat is made up of 12 and a half thousand of 2 liter plastic bottles that will act as individual buoyancy chambers. One of their challenges was to find something that is environmentally friendly that will hold all the bottles together. They have come up with water proof glue that is made from cashew nuts and sugar, thus making the whole boat environmentally friendly.

David de Rothschild is also the founder of the group Adventure Ecology. The group’s aim is to influence school children to give more interest to environmental issues. Indeed building this boat will sure catch some attention not just from the school children but even older people. If they will succeed in their journey from San Francisco to Australia then this will prove that building a boat from plastic bottles is a good idea in helping our environment.

This is a very good way of recycling and not to mention e very unique way of sailing that will surely encourage other people to build boats such as Plastiki. This will help in our ever growing problem with plastics. Finally plastics will be able to float in ocean without being considered as trash. I’m really hoping that Plastiki will have a smooth sailing journey so that other people will be inspired to build more boats from plastic bottles.