Can a plastic bottle really be strong enough to be a building block of a boat?
(02:28)Even the sails on the Plastiki are made of recycled materials. Meet the skipper of this plastic...
(02:02)Follow the Plastiki crew in their adventure across the South Pacific to Sidney.
Follow the extraordinary journey of the Plastiki, a boat built from over 12,000 recycled plastic drinking bottles, as Adventurer David De Rothschild attempts to sail the boat across the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney.
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