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A handful of young men and women are constructing one of the strangest vessels ever seen on the San Francisco waterfront - a fantastic plastic catamaran made of cast-off plastic bottles filled with dry ice.
When it is finished, sometime next month, the boat, a 60-foot catamaran named Plastiki, will sail out the Golden Gate bound across the Pacific for Australia, a voyage that will be either an absolute disaster or a huge sensation.
Plastic bottles, he said, "take a huge amount of energy to manufacture," and are used and then thrown away. Only a fraction, he said, are ever recycled. "It is a symbol of waste," he said.
The most startling feature is that the twin hulls of the catamaran will be made of 12,000 to 13,000 plastic bottles, the kind soft drinks come in. So far the expedition has 6,000 or so.
And just the other day, de Rothschild said, technicians came up with a new kind of glue to bond the hull material together - a mixture of sugar and cashew nuts.
Doesn't sugar dissolve in water? Better think that one over, Sparky.
This idea has endless possibilities. Fill soda bottles with oil and lash them together. Bingo! Instant oil tanker! Or fill the effin' things with natural gas and fly 'em over. I digress.
Use that special glue to hold all the cheap plastic crap from China together and shove it eastward. The glue will dissolve enough by the time the barge reaches these shores to easily break it into truck-sized lumps for delivery to W**M***s across the land.
And I'm sure the Fixers will enjoy a cruise on the MV Toliterflaskebåttendam.
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