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Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Guest - 06-01-2008
This is too cool! Talk about effective recycling!
"...A raft made of 15,000 plastic bottles, an repurposed old Cessna 310 airplane, and other odds and ends -- set sail from Long Beach today to make its 6-week trip to Hawaii...."
And not a bad Looking boat either!
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RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Greg - 06-01-2008
Wow! That should be worth about $750 if they reach a redemtion center.
RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Guest - 06-01-2008
Greg -
Your math is correct... give or take a few that may float away!
However, will they have the "HI-5" on them?
But don't forget the money they could also get for the scrap metal also.[
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RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Carey - 06-01-2008
Interesting, Lets just hope it stays together & doesn't add 15,000 bottles to the plastic wasteland in the Pacific!
RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - LeeE - 06-01-2008
Anybody seen this?
http://www.motherjones.com/blue_marble_blog/archives/2008/05/8323_some_kid_invent.html
"I bought groceries at Trader Joe's the other day. As anyone who has ever shopped there knows, Trader Joe's is full of incredibly attractive, cheap food, which, if you manage to make it through all the plastic packaging it comes in, you can actually eat. Unfortunately, by the time I started cooking I had more or less lost my appetite, since every time I discarded one of those packages I felt like I dropped another circle in hell.
So I pretty much love Daniel Burd right now. The 16-year-old from Waterloo, Ontario, as part of a science fair project, figured out a way to break down the polymers in plastic bags—compounds that can last for over 1,000 years—in about three months. Essentially, Burd hypothesized that since the bags eventually do degrade, it must be possible to isolate and augment the degrading agents.
Turns out that it's not only possible, it's kind of easy. ...
RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Carolann R - 06-01-2008
Kudos to a really needed technology!!
Carrie
http://www.carrierojo.etsy.com
http://www.vintageandvelvet.blogspot.com
"Freedom has a scent like the top of a newborn baby's head..." U2
RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Guest - 06-01-2008
It's now been reported that CHINA has Banned plastic bags!
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RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Kapohocat - 06-02-2008
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Originally posted by Damon...
It's now been that CHINA has Banned plastic bags!
And I ask - whose bright idea was it to do away with paper bags? At least paper bags decompose, can use to wrap mailing boxes, can put in the compost as the bottom to hold moisture, can use them as weed barriers, can do many things to keep using them, and then return them to the earth.
or even better use your reusuable shopping bag.
This is like Back to the Future - all choices have some consequences. (nod to Universal's back lot fire where I learned to drive a stick shift many many years ago! [
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RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Rob Tucker - 06-02-2008
I heard on NPR that a 16 y.o. student in Canada, as a shool science project has developed a process to reduce the breakdown time of plactics from hundreds of years to hundreds of days.
I just caught the bare facts of the story. Not details. At a glance this 16 y.o. sounds like a very interesting young person.
RE: Plastic Bottle Raft Headed to Hawaii from Cali! - Guest - 06-02-2008
Rob -
LeeE posted more info and a URL on that 16 year old a few posts above.
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