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12,500 PET bottles used as flotation [1] The Plastiki is a 60-foot (18 m) catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled PET plastic and waste products. [ 2 ] Michael Pawlyn [ 3 ] of Exploration Architecture worked on the concept design with David de Rothschild and helped to shape some of the key ideas.
After graduation, she started to investigate marine plastic debris. Barker mostly collaborates with scientists, aiming to raise public awareness of plastic pollution in the oceans. [ 2 ] She received a National Geographic Society Grant for Research and Exploration in 2018.
Nathaniel C. Wyeth (October 24, 1911 – July 4, 1990) was an American mechanical engineer and inventor.He is best known for creating a variant of polyethylene terephthalate that could withstand the pressure of carbonated liquids.
National Bottle Museum The National Bottle Museum is located on Milton Avenue ( NY 50 / 67 ) in downtown Ballston Spa , New York, United States. Established in 1978, it has a collection of over 3,700 antique bottles, most made prior to industrialization of the process in 1903.
Cover of January 1915 The National Geographic Magazine. The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, published its first issue in October 1888, nine months after the Society was founded, as the Society's official journal, a benefit for joining the tax-exempt National Geographic Society. Starting with the February ...
Daniel F. Soref National Geographic Dome Theater and Planetarium, Milwaukee; Horwitz-DeRemer Planetarium at Retzer Nature Center, Waukesha; Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Planetarium, Madison; Manfred Olsen Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee; Planetarium at University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, La Crosse
The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is not only a member of a new species — it's also the only one found on the planet whose bones are green, according ...
Evacuate Earth is a National Geographic Channel documentary that portrays the hypothetical scenario of humans evacuating the planet Earth before it is destroyed by a rogue neutron star. The documentary details the technical and social complications of building a generation ship to save humanity and other Earth organisms by relocating to a ...