Plastic bottle boat completes Pacific journey
A boat made out of 12,000 recycled plastic bottles has been used to sail from San Francisco to Sydney.
The crew of the Plastiki set off on their 9,000 mile voyage in a bid to make people aware of plastic pollution levels in the world's oceans.
Environmentalist David de Rothschild, 31, wanted to highlight the sea waste - particularly plastic debris - they encountered as they travelled.
And there was plenty of it, they sailed via the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of floating waste five time the size of the UK.
Luckily this recycled boat won't end up there itself - the Plastiki will now go on display in Sydney's Maritime Museum.
The crew of the Plastiki set off on their 9,000 mile voyage in a bid to make people aware of plastic pollution levels in the world's oceans.
Environmentalist David de Rothschild, 31, wanted to highlight the sea waste - particularly plastic debris - they encountered as they travelled.
And there was plenty of it, they sailed via the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of floating waste five time the size of the UK.
Luckily this recycled boat won't end up there itself - the Plastiki will now go on display in Sydney's Maritime Museum.