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Boat of Plastic Bottles to Sail into Ocean Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili Home >> Headlines >> Environment   
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Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles through treacherous seas. You'd have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying to make a point. De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind vessel, now being built on a San Francisco pier, will boost recycling of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. (source: edition.cnn.com)
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