Last year , a22 - year old failedto navigate down the Mississippi in aboat made from juice cartons . Now , an even more challenging eco - adventurer will undertake a 11,000 mile journey in plastic feeding bottle gravy boat .
https://gizmodo.com/22-year-old-set-to-sail-the-mississippi-on-a-boat-made-5018973
Currently 12,000 to 16,000 2 - liter soda bottles are being collected to fill in the twin hulls of their Plastiki watercraft . Each bottle with be supercharge using dry ice powder that will sublimate into carbon dioxide gas . If all goes as planned , the vas will carry four crewmembers on a 11,000 mile journeying starting this April from San Francisco to Sydney only to be fall in down and recycled at the end of the trip . Apparently , only the masts of the ship are metallic element , result the remaining 90 % as recycle material .
Sure it ’s dangerous , but the design is obviously more professional ( and less hazardous ) than the paper bottle boat that his 22 - year old predecessor cobbled together with his begetter . My dead reckoning is that it the issue will be much better this fourth dimension around . [ CNNandArchitecture for Humanity ]
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