{"id":1645,"date":"2010-11-23T20:13:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2010-11-23T20:13:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:13:02","slug":"the-plastiki-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/the-plastiki-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Plastiki’ Expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered about the fate of all those plastic bottles that wash up on our beaches very summer? In Australia last summer\u00a0plastic bottles were put to a far more eco-friendly\u00a0task than simply becoming a waste product.\u00a0The Plastiki<\/strong><\/em> is a 60\u00a0feet (18 m) catamaran<\/a> made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled<\/a> PET<\/a> plastic and waste products. The craft was built using cradle to cradle design philosophies and features many renewable energy systems, including solar panels, wind<\/a> and trailing propeller turbines, and bicycle generators<\/a>. The frame was designed by Australian naval architect Andrew Dovell. The boat's name is a play on the 1947 Kon-Tiki<\/a><\/em> raft used to sail across the Pacific by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, and its voyage roughly followed the same route.<\/p>\n

The 'Plastiki' held together with sugar cane and cashew glue, is proof that trash can be turned into something useful, expedition leader David de Rothschild said. The six-member crew's journey to Australia, which began in San Francisco in March, was inspired by a United Nations Environment Programme report that highlighted the threat of plastic pollution to the world's oceans.<\/p>\n

Read about the Plastiki Expedition <\/a>and Adventure Ecology<\/a>, the group who built and sailed her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered about the fate of all those plastic bottles that wash up on our beaches very summer? In Australia last summer\u00a0plastic bottles were put to a far more eco-friendly\u00a0task than simply becoming a waste product.\u00a0The Plastiki is a 60\u00a0feet (18 m) catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled PET plastic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}