Not all plastics are created equal – and to prove it, a rakish banking heir and a team of young adventurers have built a huge ship out of plastic. Called Plastiki, the 60-foot catamaran's hull is made ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ismael Essome, an engineer from Cameroon, is reusing plastic bottles to create fishing boats. The African country annually ...

A boat made of plastic bottles sails in the Banjir Kanal Timur river in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 27, 2024. Thirty-two boats made of waste plastics and in various shapes took part in a boat parade ...

Humanity has a plastic bottle addiction – people around the world purchase one million a minute, and many bottles wind up in the ocean instead of recycling bins. Cameroon-based nonprofit Madiba & ...

In recent years, coastal regions have been increasingly littered with waste washed up on the shores. This is a result of over-dependence on single-use items, especially those made of plastic, as well ...

LAMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan islanders have built a boat made entirely of recycled plastic collected during clean-ups of the ocean to highlight the growing menace of plastic waste that ends up in ...

Global fashion brand Scotch & Soda, based in Amsterdam, is a longtime partner of Plastic Whale, which collects and recycles waste plastic bottles from the city’s iconic canals and uses them to build ...

When the Manta begins traveling along coastlines in 2024, the new sailboat will pull plastic trash from the water as it moves, capturing as much as three tons of plastic per hour. On board, the ...

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