A long while back we featured the Plastiki project, a boat made from 12,500 plastic bottles. The construction portion of the project is now complete and what remains is for the project crew to sail from San Francisco to Sydney. They are on a mission to showcase waste as a resource and highlight plastic pollution. The project also has a robust internet and social media presence, allowing people to track the progress of the expedition now in progess.

Plastic waste is a huge threat to the earth’s oceans. It is typically not biodegradable. And plastic that ends up in the ocean eventually breaks down into small pieces and particles, contaminating water and endangering ocean life. Vice TV have put together a new series called “TOXIC”. It’s essentially a video series about humanity’s subconscious mission to destroy the earth. One of the featured stories goes and takes a first hand look at the plastic pollution problem…

“Come aboard as the VBS crew takes a cruise to the Northern Gyre in the Pacific Ocean, a spot where currents spin and cycle, churning up tons of plastic into a giant pool of chemical soup, flecked with bits and whole chunks of refuse that cannot biodegrade.” – VBS.tv

More about Plastiki here.
More from VBS here.