David de Rothschild (yes he is a real Rothschild whom 7X7 magazine has termed an “Eco-Hunk”) is the founder of a group called Adventure Ecology. His latest venture is to create a boat using 12,000 plastic bottles. He even gave it its own interactive website where you can click on different parts of the boat to learn more about it!
The goal of the Plastiki Expedeition as stated on their website: “A handpicked crew of adventurers, scientists and creatives are to sail across the Pacific on the ‘Plastiki’ – a 60-foot catamaran mad from reclaimed plastic bottles. Their mission is to beat waste by inspiring sustainable solutions and to highlight the ecological damage being done to the world’s oceans.”
Very cool! And I will admit, he is pretty cute in an ‘eco-hunk’ kind of way. Here is a video:
