Next, Method teamed with like-minded Envision Plastics, which created a new recycling process, combining a minimum of 10 percent of ocean plastic with regular curbside recycled plastic to create higher quality bottles.

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Ms Hill says she was inspired to begin her campaign by her grandson, who told her about a vast floating island of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean.

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How about if we turned that giant island of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean Gyre into a mirror or shade, or something?

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The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.

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It will remain on display for a month as crew members hold special events aimed at raising awareness of plastic waste in the ocean.

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