A message in 12,000 bottles.

PositionENVIRONMENT - Plastiki - Brief article

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It may be the only boat that you could redeem at your supermarket: The eco-friendly Plastiki is made from thousands of plastic bottles. Its creator, English banking heir David de Rothschild, 31, plans to sail it on an 11,000-mite journey from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, this spring. De Rothschild wants to show that waste can be put to good use: Thousands of bottles were melted down to build the...

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