The Plastiki Arrives in Sydney

[The Magic Pudding]

I just heard the Plastiki has completed it's trip across the Pacific from San Francisco.

De Rothschild's message is simple: plastic is fantastic, and we should learn how to reuse and recycle it, instead of discarding it as waste that then goes on to pollute our land and oceans.

Everyday, about eight million items of marine litter enter the planet's waterways. A floating "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" about six times the size of England and containing up to 100 million tons of plastic waste is trapped in the Pacific Ocean, killing 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals and countless fish every year, the UN estimates.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/plast ... utostart=1
http://www.theplastiki.com/

[Tank]

Reported on the BBC this morning, apparently it took 4 months to get across, sounds like an excellent holiday cruise to me.

[Tank]

The real cost of discarded plastic.

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