A model sailing boat which represents a key part of a project working to banish single use plastics has embarked on a global tour that will help its message reach thousands more people and communities across the planet Northumbria University researchers and lecturers have backed the Flipflopi project, which has retrieved 135 tonnes of post-consumer plastics from the Lamu Archipelago on the Kenyan coast within the past ten months. The archipelago has a population of only 50,000. The team constructed the world's first 100% recycled plastic sailing boat approximately four years ago using discarded materials collected from the beaches of Kenya. Among the reclaimed materials were 30,000 discarded flip flops, which are commonly found in oceans worldwide. While plastic is a major environ...
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