Plastic for Plastiki

Recently, the Plastiki boat, built in San Francisco, landed at its destination in Sydney, Australia stopping at a well known plastic island in the middle of the ocean along the way. Floating on two liter plastic bottles, David de Rothschild and his skilled crew tirelessly designed, built and tested their vessel on the shores of the Bay at Pier 31 before embarking.

13,000 plastic bottles were donated to his group, Adventure Ecology, by the Haight Ashbury Recycling center. Each bottle had to go through rigorous testing to assure its strength before it could eventually end up as a piece of the plastiki boat. This video shows Charlie from the center telling us about the HANC contribution and excerpts of Ed Dunn, Executive Director of HANC and David de Rothschild, Eco-Adventurer, discussing plastic and the environment at Pier 31. See the prototype of the boat in its early phases and get a feel for the excitement and massive effort involved to make this eco dream a reality.

From spectacular efforts like those of Adventure Ecology, along with diligent grass roots efforts like HANC's, there is a wide range of possibilites when it comes to saving the earth. Pluripotent moments like these are the precipice of the future as we all decide where we stand on the environment and what we are capable of doing about it. Congrats to Plastiki and HANC for collaborating on such a unique and successful project!