As managing editor of Men.style.com, the online home of GQ and Details magazines, has a short blurb and photograph today about a plastics-related environmental project that I had not seen before.
David de Rothschild, described as a "banking heir and Global Warming Survival Handbook author,", plans to set sail in December on an 8,000-mile journey from San Francisco to Australia, on a boat named The Plastiki, made from post-consumer plastic bottles.
The trip will take him through the Eastern Garbage Patch, the area in the Pacific Ocean where floating plastic is said to vastly outnumber marine plankton.
It will be interesting to see what approach the Plastiki voyagers take to encouraging solutions to the marine debris problem.
Comments (3)
i think he will make it the whole way and i hope the rubbish gets clean
Posted by christopher | March 23, 2009 7:46 PM
Posted on March 23, 2009 19:46
I very much approve of the goals of this experiment and hope they achieve all they strive for.
Posted by David Thomas | April 7, 2009 5:21 PM
Posted on April 7, 2009 17:21
Is it really true that in the Eastern Garbage Patch floating plastic vastly outnumbers marine plankton? These people are doing a great job and I think that they should be encouraged. At least someone is thinking about cleaning up the environment. Great job and I wish you guys all the best for your journey.
Posted by Janet | December 3, 2009 11:38 PM
Posted on December 3, 2009 23:38