{"id":6866,"date":"2014-11-05T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:00:26","slug":"question-of-the-week-believe-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/11\/05\/question-of-the-week-believe-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Boat made of Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/11\/bottle-24-oz-win-me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6868\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2014\/11\/bottle-24-oz-win-me-133x300.jpg\" alt=\"bottle 24 oz win me\" width=\"106\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Time for our Question of the Week!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333\">The first person to respond with the correct answer will win\u00a0a reusable 24 oz. OSU water bottle, like the one pictured here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333\">Submit your answer here (<strong>\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below<\/strong>) or on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/osurecycling\">Facebook<\/a> page. Only one post per person, please.<\/p>\n<h3>Question of the Week<\/h3>\n<p>In 2010, a boat made entirely of water bottles sailed from San Francisco to Sydney. <span style=\"color: #008000\">What was the name of this ship? <span style=\"color: #000000\">(Hint: this story was featured in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/tag\/reedcyclers-believe-it-or-not\/\">Reedcycler&#8217;s Believe it or Not<\/a>&#8221; blog series.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>This particular ship is called the <em>Plastiki, <\/em>and<em> <\/em>was created using 12,500 recovered water bottles in order to promote sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the ship was featured in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/tag\/reedcyclers-believe-it-or-not\/\">Reedcycler&#8217;s Believe it or Not<\/a>&#8221; blog series, which showcases weird waste stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for our Question of the Week! The first person to respond with the correct answer will win\u00a0a reusable 24 oz. OSU water bottle, like the one pictured here. Submit your answer here (\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below) or on our\u00a0Facebook page. Only one post per person, please. Question of the Week In 2010, a boat [&hellip;]<\/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":[626631,608247],"class_list":["post-6866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction","tag-recycling-question-of-the-week","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","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=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}