Boat Made of Recycled Plastic Bottles Completes Its 9,000-Mile Voyage

After floating on plastic for more than 9,000 miles, the crew of the Plastiki arrived in Sydney, Australia today, more than four months after the ship set sail from San Francisco. The boat of 12,500 bottles was the brainchild of David de Rothschild, who sought a way to bring more of the world's attention to the problem of discarded plastic bottles and their tendency to wind up in the ocean.