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Four months and 8,000 nautical miles after setting sail from Sausalito, California, the highly unconventional craft Plastiki completed its Pacific crossing to arrive in Sydney harbor this morning. The catamaran–constructed from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles–and its unlikely journey underscored the costs and consequences of plastic waste, much of which winds up in the ocean.

Environmentalist, Adventure Ecology founder, and expedition leader David de Rothschild, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, conceived the voyage as a means to inspire others to rethink the resources they consume, particularly the single-use plastics that have become a nearly ubiquitous part of modern life.

News Source: National Geographic