Steady as She Goes, Plastiki

These guys built a catamaran completely out of PET bottles. The 60-foot hull is made of 12,500 plastic bottles (the number of plastic bottles tossed away in the US every 8.3 seconds). They're simply strapped together, not melted down and molded. Crazy.

They just cast off yesterday from San Francisco for a journey across the Pacific, through the disgusting and saddening Great Pacific Garbage Patch, in an effort to raise awareness about the finger print we're leaving.

I wish I could have hitched a ride as their filmmaker.

The New Yorker

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