{"id":6655,"date":"2014-10-13T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:45:36","slug":"reedcyclers-believe-it-or-not-from-water-bottles-to-boats-and-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/10\/13\/reedcyclers-believe-it-or-not-from-water-bottles-to-boats-and-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Reedcycler's Believe it or Not: From Water Bottles to Boats and Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Reedcyclers<\/a><\/p>\n

The world is a weird place.<\/p>\n

And in the world of waste, people do odd things in order to lower the amount of trash in the world. Join me, Reedcycler, and for the next nine weeks I will show you a selection of strange sustainability and waste-related stories.<\/p>\n

Boat made of water bottles sails the sea<\/h3>\n
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The Plastiki docked in San Francisco. Click to view larger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Francisco is known for its spectacles, but on March 20, 2010, the city was host to one that turned most gazes: a ship made entirely from recycled plastic<\/a>. Named the Plastiki, <\/em>the catamaran was to cross the Pacific Ocean to Sydney, Australia, in order to raise awareness about the massive amounts of plastic pollution<\/a> in the world\u2019s oceans. The entire voyage covered 8,000 nautical miles.<\/p>\n

The vessel was created using 12,500 recovered water bottles<\/a>, as well as other PET plastic waste, and came equip with solar panels, wind turbines, bicycle generators, and a small garden.<\/p>\n

From bottles to bridges: world\u2019s largest bottle structure <\/strong><\/h3>\n
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What would you turn me into?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Water bottles are a fairly resilient material, and have been used to create a variety of objects, as showcased above. But would you want to walk on a bridge made from plastic bottles<\/a>?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the team of volunteers at Ecostuff <\/a>did, creating what may be the world\u2019s largest plastic bottle structure in Timsoara, Romania. By tying together plastic plastic bottles with polypropylene rope, and securing the bottles in welded cages made of nets, the crew created 76 brick-like modules, which were attached together to form the bridge.<\/p>\n

This post is part of the “Reedcycler’s Believe it or Not<\/a>” blog series, which showcases weird waste-related stories. Tune in on Mondays each week for more.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world is a weird place. And in the world of waste, people do odd things in order to lower the amount of trash in the world. Join me, Reedcycler, and for the next nine weeks I will show you a selection of strange sustainability and waste-related stories. Boat made of water bottles sails the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292119],"tags":[626965,608247],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction","tag-reedcyclers-believe-it-or-not","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}