A boat made of bottles

Match the paragraph with the correct subtitle How did the Plastiki begin? David de Rothschild is an environmentalist who has crossed Antarctica and explored the Ecuadorian Amazon. One day he was reading some information about all the plastic in the seas and oceans. He couldnt believe what he was reading, For example, humans throw away four out of every five plastic bottles they use, and plastic rubbish causes about eighty per cent of the pollution in the sea. In addition, scientists think that around one million seabirds die every year from plastic pollution. De Rothschild decided he wanted to help the fight against pollution in the sea. To help more people understand the problem, he started building a boat made of plastic bottles. How well did the Plastiki survive the journey? The journey wasn't always easy and de Rothschild and his crew had to take care during storms. There were giant ocean waves and winds of over one hundred kilometres per our. The whole journey took one hundred and twenty nine days. Originally, de Rothschild thought the boat could only travel once, but it lasted so well that he is planning to sail it again one day A boat with a difference The Plastiki looks similar to many other boats in Sydney harbour. It's eighteen metres long, six metres wide and it weighs about twelve thousand kilogrammes. t carries a crew of six people and has an average speed of five knots. However, once you get near to the Plastiki you realize there's a big difference. Its made of twelve thousand five hundred reused plastic bottles. The journey De Rothschild sailed the Plastili across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney. That's fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-two kilometres. On the way, de Rothschild took the special boat through the ‘Great Garbage Patch'. It is a huge area in the Pacific with 3.5 billion kilogrammes of rubbish. You can see every kind of human rubbish here: shoes, toys, bags, toothbrushes, but the worst problem is the plastic. It kills birds and sea life. Designing the Plastiki As well as building the boat with recycled plastic, it was important for him to make the boat environmentally friendly and user-friendly. The boat uses renewable energy such as wind power and solar energy. The crew can make meals with vegetables from the small garden at the back of the boat. They can take a break from work and get some exercise by using the special exercise bicycle. The energy from the bike provides power for the boat's computers. And if anyone needs to take a shower, the boat's shower uses saltwater from the sea. Find the correct order Order the text by matching the titles with its corresponding number How did the Plastiki begin? 2 How well did the Plastiki survive the journey? 5 A boat with a difference 1 The journey 4 Designing the Plastiki 3