Explorer, environmentalist, and British celebrity David de Rothschild will set out on a 11,000-mile (17,703-kilometer) journey across the Pacific Ocean at the end of March—in a boat made of plastic bottles.
Created from a special composite of recycled plastic, de Rothschild's boat is a 60-foot (18-meter) catamaran called Plastiki.
De Rothschild will steer the fiberglass-like frame, made buoyant by the addition of 12,000 two-liter plastic bottles along the hulls, from San Francisco to Sydney—with several island stops—on an exploration of plastic litter—the most common in the type of ocean pollution.
But that's not all. The expedition is also a way to highlight how materials can be re-used, said de Rothschild, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and founder of the nonprofit Adventure Ecology.
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