July 6th, 2010
Plastiki World Tour
12,500 plastic bottle are currently sailing around the world in a bid to beat waste, one bottle at a time!
The sailing catamaran, Plastiki, is made up of 12,500 plastic bottles and a whole heap of other recycled and re-used materials to help bring awareness to everyone about the harmful waste degrading the health of our oceans and planet.
For marine wildlife, fish and mammals it is an ever-increasing worry that the ingestion of plastic or entanglement in plastic and waste is dwindling fish stocks and increasing the loss of life in the worlds seas and oceans.
Plastikiand her crew, are sailing the world in the hopes to reduce the usage of plastic bottles, plastic bags and such like materials while promoting the 4 R’s- Reduce, Reuse, Rethink and Recycle! Currently, Plastiki has been at sea for 2616 hours/109 days, covering 6944 nautical miles. The trip started in San Francisco and they are heading to Sydney, Australia.
The aim is to raise 12,500 pledges to help beat waste by the time Plastiki reaches Sydney, Australia. You too can join in and help beat waste by going to the site and making your pledge. Click HEREto pledge. Just think- every plastic bottle ever made still exists today!
BEATING WASTE ONE BOTTLE AT A TIME!