Eco-adventurer David de Rothschild plans to sail 11,000 miles from San Francisco to Sydney by way of the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch on his 60-foot catamaran called the Plastiki. That in itself is a big deal, however the amazing thing is that the catamaran is made of used two-liter plastic bottles! “Our philosophy of throwing everything away has to change,” says de Rothschild. “I want to use the Plastiki as a platform to help people think of waste as a resource.”
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2009.