After one hundred and thirty days and eight thousand nautical miles, 10 crew members traveling on a boat named Plastiki, made of more than 12,500 plastic bottles, reached Sydney’s Australian National Maritime Museum in high spirits.
Plastiki successfully carried the crew from San Francisco, where they started in March, to Australia in an effort to, as the Plastiki website puts it, “Highlight solutions to protect our oceans and beat waste.” According to the New York Times, “Plastiki estimated at its Web site that 8.7 billion plastic bottles, give or take, had been used in the United States since it set out.” By orchestrating a successful venture on Plastiki, the crew proved that plastic bottles can be put to good (awesome) use–and not just trashed.
Among the many spectators who watched Plastiki pull into Darling Harbour in Sydney was the American ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich, who said, “The journey of the Plastiki is a journey from trash to triumph.”
[Via: The New York Times/Plastiki]
[Photo Via: Latitude 38]
