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Plastic Bottle Catamaran Crosses The Pacific Ocean

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-your-usual-trash-barge dept.

The Plastiki, a catamaran made with plastic bottles, has completed a 8,000 mile trip between San Francisco and Sydney. Captain David de Rothschild said, "The Plastiki is literally a metaphorical message in a bottle about beating waste and reducing our human fingerprints on our natural environment." The boat will go on display at the Australian National Maritime Museum for the next month.

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  1. Nyaargh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    literally a metaphorical message in a bottle

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