St. Louis talking trash with boat arrival
A trashy boat, or rather a boat made of trash, arrived in St. Louis recently, according to The Riverfront Times.
The ‘ioco’, a 21-foot-long catamaran made of plastic bottles, sailed into Alton, Illinois, on July 19. Its crew—six environmentalists from all over the earth—stocked up on supplies and enjoyed some of St. Louis's attractions.
Gary Bencheghib, a member of the expedition and a filmmaker who is putting a documentary together about the project, said St. Louis is the halfway point of the expedition. The voyage started in Minneapolis on June 19, with the aim of sailing the 1,800 miles of the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, which the team hopes to reach in mid-August. Bencheghib said the weather has been good enough so far for the crew to camp on sand banks, rather than having to tie up and go ashore.
The boat is made of hundreds of plastic bottles that have been wired together. It was designed by two engineers from Switzerland, with the purpose of calling attention to the pollution of waterways, and the importance of recycling—especially getting rid of so-called ‘single-use plastic containers’ like the bottles that form the boat.
Projects like these can benefit from working with flyer printing companies, which can create materials about both the projects and the issues they examine.
The ‘ioco’, a 21-foot-long catamaran made of plastic bottles, sailed into Alton, Illinois, on July 19. Its crew—six environmentalists from all over the earth—stocked up on supplies and enjoyed some of St. Louis's attractions.
Gary Bencheghib, a member of the expedition and a filmmaker who is putting a documentary together about the project, said St. Louis is the halfway point of the expedition. The voyage started in Minneapolis on June 19, with the aim of sailing the 1,800 miles of the Mississippi River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, which the team hopes to reach in mid-August. Bencheghib said the weather has been good enough so far for the crew to camp on sand banks, rather than having to tie up and go ashore.
The boat is made of hundreds of plastic bottles that have been wired together. It was designed by two engineers from Switzerland, with the purpose of calling attention to the pollution of waterways, and the importance of recycling—especially getting rid of so-called ‘single-use plastic containers’ like the bottles that form the boat.
Projects like these can benefit from working with flyer printing companies, which can create materials about both the projects and the issues they examine.