The Plastiki is probably much nicer looking than you expected it to look when you first heard that it was made from garbage, which could have been as little as 5 seconds ago when you read the title of this blog post. Well, actually it’s made from recycled plastic, which after processing is not as garbagey as a smashed TV or an empty grease-shined KFC bucket. The features that are most readily recognizable as former garbage are the 12,500 empty plastic bottles, still in their original form, that provide flotation to the catamaran hull of the Plastiki. It takes a whole 8.3 seconds for the United States to generate that many plastic bottles.

Lots more information and pictures at http://www.theplastiki.com/.