{"id":3030,"date":"2009-03-09T10:48:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:30:45","slug":"boat-made-of-plastic-bottles-to-make-ocean-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"Boat made of plastic bottles to make ocean voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3031\" title=\"art_plastiki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/art_plastiki.jpg\" alt=\"art_plastiki\" width=\"292\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/art_plastiki.jpg 292w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/art_plastiki-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/>Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles through treacherous seas.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying to make a point.<\/p>\n<p>De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind vessel, now being built on a San Francisco pier, will boost recycling of plastic bottles, which he says are a symbol of global waste. Except for the masts, which are metal, everything on the 60-foot catamaran is made from recycled plastic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all sail power,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The idea is to put no kind of pollution back into the atmosphere&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/03\/09\/plastic.bottle.boat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine collecting thousands of empty plastic bottles, lashing them together to make a boat and sailing the thing from California to Australia, a journey of 11,000 miles through treacherous seas. You&#8217;d have to be crazy, or trying to make a point. David de Rothschild is trying to make a point. De Rothschild hopes his one-of-a-kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-new-boating-products-tests","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}