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A Look Inside The Plastiki Boat Made Of Plastic

Gizmodo AU

The Plastiki – a boat made up of 12,500 recycles PET bottles – sailed into Sydney Harbour over the weekend after four months crossing the Pacific ocean. Yesterday, we got to look at it up close.


July 26, 2010
Cars

Plastiki, The Pop Bottle Ship, Completes Its 12,875km Voyage

Plastiki, an 18m vessel buoyed by over 12,000 two-litre plastic bottles, sailed into the Sydney Harbour today, completing a 130-day, 12,875km journey from San Francisco. A long way to travel for the 10c deposit!


March 22, 2010
Cars

Plastiki, The Ship Made From Plastic Bottles, Set Sail Saturday

After four years of development, the Plastiki finally set sail on Saturday from San Francisco, where it will travel 17,700km to Sydney. Its website has useful tracking stats for all nautical nutters, well worth checking out. [Plastiki]


March 2, 2010
Cars

Plastiki, The Ship Made From 12,000 Bottles, To Set Sail This Month

After what feels like years of concept renders and photos of the hairy David de Rothschild accompanying gushing magazine pieces about his plastic bottle boat, the Plastiki will set sail this month across the Pacific Ocean.