Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Plastiki


Plastiki is a boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles filled with air. David de Rothschild came up with the idea to build this awesome Plastiki boat. Not the entire boat is made out of plastic, but only the bottom part that it floats on.
The goal was to ride the Plastiki from San Francisco to Sydney. That is 11 miles of travel. It took them 3 years to build the boat.
To build it David de Rothschild first sketched the boat and then they actually build it.
David de Rothschild wanted to surprise people that it is possible to make a boat out of many recycled bottles.

10 comments:

Michael said...

Nice info on the boat and people, Emma, but what about the real reason they're doing it? It is to raise awareness of all the plastic waste in the ocean. It's really gross! :-(

Anonymous said...

Nice job Emma. You got good info for the plastiki post. Keep up the great work.

Unknown said...

Great job Emma. You missed out the reason why David de Rothschild built the plastiki. Also great information on about were there going.

Maria said...

Nice Job! You didn't really say why Plastiki was built though. Great description!

Middle school Neil said...

Nice job about the plastiki info it was good but u hve to check the las two words keep it up

Maya ♥ said...

Good job emma!! just something I was wondering: do you always spell plastic and bottles that way? :) just remember the real reason they are sailing.

- InuKag4evr

Mickeyoung said...
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Mickeyoung said...

Nice job!!! I never knew that it took 3 years for David De Rothchild to build Plastiki! Good job mentioning that David wanted people to show that a boat is possible to be made out of many recycled plastic bottles.

Hyun Jin said...

Nice job here Emma. Nice picture of the route. I agree with Mr. Hughes-maybe you could include the real reason David de Rothschild is doing this Plastiki project??

Madhav said...

Good job on the facts and the finer points of the information. Overall it is a good post but like Mr.Hughes and Hyun Jin,i think you should include why David de Rothschild is doing this.