Bottle Boat Raises Awareness around the World.

Plastiki is not the name of a new Polish Pop group, it is the name of a very imaginative sail boat designed to raise global awareness of the pollution of plastics within our seas/oceans. The journey was designed to raise awareness of the state of our oceans and the impact we have on biodiversity. Pastiki is a boat that has been crafted from thousands of plastic bottles and the brain child of Britain’s Rothschild banking fortune. Mr. David D. Rothschild, an avid environmentalist headed the project, and is reported to be overwhelmed by the reception the craft received as it entered Sydney harbour on Monday, completing an epic 9,000 mile journey.

The boat set off from San Francisco in March of this year, and travelled through a waste- strewn area of the of the north Pacific, making stops in the Line Islands, West Samoa and the French territory of New Caledonia before heading for the final trip to Australia.

The idea came to light after Rothschild was astounded by a United Nations report into the marine ecosystems and biodiversity realising that there are these human footprints all over the oceans of our planet.
The journey, although exceeded the projects expectation, confirmed the extent of the problem within our seas, when the crew saw the amount of degrading plastic floating in the middle of nowhere acting as a dumping ground for human carelessness.

The plastic items get smaller and smaller until eventually they are injected by fish, which is then eaten by people. According to the United Nations Environment Programme there are more than 15,000 units of plastic every 0.4 square miles of the world oceans, with a further 6.4 million tonnes of plastic dumped into the seas each year.

And whilst the plastic boat made completely of recycled plastic bottles helped raise the environmental awareness of our polluted oceans, the crew themselves proved to be environmentally sustainable also. They had grown organic vegetable in a garden on the boat, while the electric equipment was powered using solar panels and innovative stationary bicycles which had to be pedalled for a couple of hours each day.

Just4theplanet recently reported on the plans for the brand Electrolux to use this waste plastic in our oceans to make new products, and now we see Britain’s Rothschild banking fortune raising awareness of this increasing problem. It warms the heart to know people who can make a big difference are taking up the challenge.

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