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Explorer, environmentalist, and British celebrity David de Rothschild will set out on a 11,000-mile (17,703-kilometer) journey across the Pacific Ocean at the end of March—in a boat made of plastic bottles. Created from a special composite of recycled plastic, de Rothschild’s boat is a 60-foot (18-meter) catamaran called Plastiki. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWzb-iKZE8 The most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, the lowly plastic bag is an environmental scourge like none other, sapping the life out of our oceans and thwarting our attempts to recycle it. By Katharine Mieszkowski Dr. Richard Bailey, executive director of the institute, is most concerned about the bags that get waterlogged and sink to the bottom. [...] |
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