The plastic bottle boat

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Fill in the Blanks The plastic bottle boatOnline version This activity is designed to practice your reading skills by Jhardel 1 came simple extreme amount supply move attention lose lost held inspire effect By the age of 30 , David Rothschild had explored many remote places and succeeded in reaching both the North and South Poles ! During his expeditions , he noticed the terrible that pollution and global warming were having on the environment . After reading about the huge of waste plastic in the world ? s oceans , he decided to do something to draw people ? s to the problem . Rothschild up with the idea of constructing a boat using plastic waste and sailing it from the USA to Australia . The result was Plastiki . It was made almost entirely from plastic bottles , all together with sticky organic glue . It had solar panels and wind turbines to the crew with electricity . Despite the unusual materials used in its construction , Plastiki managed to survive weather conditions , and safely made the 16 , 000 - kilometre voyage across the Pacific Ocean . Rothschild and his crew hoped that the Plastiki expedition would other people to think seriously about re - using waste materials .