The Plastiki’s eight thousand nautical mile voyage from San Francisco to Sydney has now come to an end but its aim to raise awareness of the huge amount of plastic waste floating in the ocean will carry on.
Built out of 12 thousand 500 recycled plastic bottles the catamaran will continue to be used in campaigns about marine debris, over fishing and the health of the oceans.
The craft has already amazed all those who have seen it and its skipper, internationally recognised sailor, Jo Royle says its creators want people to think about increasingly wasteful bad habits such as the single use made of some plastic items.
“We leave the house without our clean canteen and we are thirsty. So we buy this plastic water bottle from the newsagency, drink the water in five minutes and throw the water bottle away. And that water bottle lasts in our planet for more that five hundred years. We don’t know exactly how long it lasts, we don’t know if it ever disappears, but it definitely lasts for more than 500 years, and that is crazy.”