Crossing the Pacific Ocean with plastic bottles

A young British man uses 12,500 plastic bottles to create a boat and use it to cross the Pacific Ocean.

The boat named Plastiki is made of 12,500 plastic bottles.Photo: Daily Mail .

Daily Mail said that David de Rothschild was a member of the Rothschild family - famous throughout the UK and the world for banking and finance. However, David likes to explore and fight for environmental protection. During the past three years, he and some other environmental activists collected 12,500 bottles of waste plastic to create a nearly 20 m long boat. They pump CO2 into plastic bottles so that the boat floats easily on water.

David announced that in a few weeks he would use a boat to travel from San Francisco (USA) to Sydney (Australia). He will call the Eastern Garbage Patch - a giant floating island made up of waste plastic in the northern Pacific Ocean. The ocean currents have "gathered" garbage from everywhere to create this floating island. Its area ranges from 700 thousand to 15 million square kilometers. A recent UN report confirmed that the island is bulging at an alarming rate.

David used to go to the North Pole and now he wants to cross the Pacific Ocean.Photo: Daily Mail.

David's journey is about 16,000 km long. He made the trip to attract the attention of public opinion on how to use plastic.

"Our boat is a proof that scrap is still useful if we know how to reuse them , " David said.

The 31-year-old said the boat had a solar panel, a toilet, an aquatic garden to grow vegetables and two bicycles to exercise. Interestingly, the two cars are capable of generating electricity when pedaling. The electricity from the car will be directed to the communication equipment. In the journey David will sample water and blog. The public can contact him through a center in Regent Street, London, England. After the trip David's boat will be disassembled for recycling.