Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Voyage of the PLASTIKI

WOW!! Check this guy out! His name is David de Rothschild and he is planning on sailing 7,500 miles from Sydney, Australia to San Francisco, in a boat made of recycled bottles. A brief story was done on NPR, for your listening pleasure. This story revolves around the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is a floating landfill half the size of Texas. This garbage dump is composed of plastics that to ocean currents is a collecting material that finds its way into the ocean. Read the articles to see how our world is being affected and check back to see what is happening with the "Plastiki".

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool! Is anyone doing a project on this for science night yet? If not, I'd love to do it! What do you think?

Jason said...

Um... will there ever be another post on this blog?!