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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Plastiki

The Plastiki is a boat made out of recycled materials. The bottom of the boat is made of 2litre plastic bottles. In total there are 36,000 plastic bottles on the ship. The leader of this project is a person named David de Rothschild. He wanted to create the Plastiki, because there was garbage in the ocean and if you collected all the garbage in the ocean you could create some thing spectacular! Like the Plastiki. The construction of the boat started 3 years ago in 2007. The sail is also made out of plastic bottles. The technology used to create the Plastiki was unimanginable! They used Solar Panels to power the boat and the backup power for the engine is by pedalling a bycycle to create power for the engine.


The Plastiki set sail on moday and it's route is to cross the Atlantic Ocean

14 comments:

Michael said...

Good words on the boat, Brandon, but the real focus is raising our awareness of all the plastic trash that gets thrown in the ocean. It's really bad.

I like the larger graphic you've used.

mh

Anonymous said...

Nice job Brandon. You put good info in the post. good job.

Middle School Si Won said...

Nice job Brandon. You've got some facts missing, but overall, good job.

Valentina said...

Good job! Missing the real point of Plastiki but good! I like your wordchoice!

Nora Trapp said...

YOu're the first person that mentioned the construction starting in 2007. I think you should make the picture a bit smaller, nice job!!!

Ivan Zhang said...

I really think u should make the pictures smaller. but like nora said your did a great job about saying it was built in 07 :)

ps. i really think u should make the pic smaller

Unknown said...

Great job Brandon! The picture of the Plastiki boat is huge, but not that I'm telling you to change it. Anyway, good details on the reason why David wanted to built the Plastiki. :)

Maria said...

Nice Job! You weren't really clear about why Plastiki was made. I liked the way you described Plastiki.

Middle school Neil said...

NIce job about the plastiki info keep it up

Yong Hee Lee said...

gud job bud and keep up the good work. By the way cool template/site whatever :D

Michelle Layanto said...

You may have nto included ALL the information but I think you got GOOOOD info!

Maya ♥ said...

Great info, brandonini :) (u copied Rgee's template) haha you may have been missing some facts but nice job!

- InuKag4evr

Mickeyoung said...

Good information Brandon!!! I was about to explain about solar panel but I was more interested in bicycle thing. Nice Job!!!

Hyun Jin said...

Good job here, Brandon. Cool info here, that the building of the Plastiki started in 2007. But you are missing the real reason of why David de Rothschild built Plastiki though. You are missing some facts but good job.