subject: Christian Louboutin Institute [print this page] Ellen Pearlstein UCLA/Getty Master's Program in the Conservation of Christian Louboutin and Archaeological Materials, A210 Fowler, Los Angeles, CA 90095, epearl@ucla.edu Lynn Brostoff, Preservation Research and Testing Division, Preservation Directorate, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC. Karen Trentelman, The Getty Conservation Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90049 [...] we built a frame by sandwiching plastic foam between "cloth" sheets made by a Danish company from recycled plastic. Q: Besides boats, how can we reuse plastic? A: WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? EXPLORER DAVID DE ROTHSCHILD PROMOTES OCEAN CLEANUP ON A PLASTIC-BOTTLE RAFT Given the choice, you probably wouldn't risk sailing 11,500 miles from San Francisco to Sydney in a boat Christian Louboutin black suede cross sandals of 20,000 plastic water bottles. But David de Rothschild, the founder of the nonprofi t educational organization Adventure Ecology, sees such a vessel as the perfect way to "beat waste" by promoting new uses for recycled plastic while dramatizing the problem of ocean debris. Next month, de Rothschild and a crew of scientists will sail the Plastiki, a 60-foot catamaran, to environmental hotspots including Bikini Atoll, the former atomic-bomb Christian Louboutin Black Toe Sandals site, and Tuvalu, an island rapidly disappearing under rising seas. He will also swing by the northern reaches of the Great Pacifi c Garbage Patch, the Canada-size, 100-millionton accumulation of mostly plastic refuse trapped in a vortex of ocean currents in the middle of the Pacifi c. This toxic stew, made up of everything from decomposing Lego blocks to supermarket bags, kills more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals a year. We talked to de Rothschild about coming face-to-face with the refuse and his plan to help clean it up.-ARNIE COOPER Q: How bad is plastic pollution in the oceans? A: The National Christian Louboutin Black Window-shades of Sciences estimates that fi ve million tons of plastic enter the ocean each year. Some large pieces fl oat on the surface; plankton and fi sh ingest microscopic fragments. It concentrates wherever ocean currents converge, the most notorious of which is the Great Pacifi c Garbage Patch, which extends from about 500 miles west of California into the Sea of Japan.There's also one off the western coast of Antarctica, and scientists have just found a huge patch off the coast of Chile. Q: You're planning a diffi cult journey- so why a boat made of plastic bottles?
