This Boat Is Made Entirely From Recycled Plastics And Flip Flops

Some may find a boat sitting on the island Lamu of Kenya an interesting, beautiful artwork. But it's not as simple as that.

The intriguing point is that this "boat" is not painted with colors, but instead is made using discarded flip-flops and plastic.

The boat is named Flipflopi just as to recall its origin and is designed just like a normal sailing boat with the length of about 10 meters. Amazingly, besides the fact that it required a lot of recycled plastic and a huge amount of flipflops (10 tons of plastic and 30,000 flipflops!), this boat actually works. In late January, it set off to Zanzibar, 500 kilometers away from Lamu.

Rather than a gimmick or some crazy idea from someone, this is really a push to bring issues which our single-used plastics can harm the ecosystem to the light of fact. Along the course of Flipflopi's first trip, the watercraft will stop at a couple of towns and urban communities to show local people how to recycle their very own plastic.

What's more, the group who created it didn't simply collect plastics from dump sites. They allegedly gathered plastic waste and tidied up Lamu's shorelines, using that to assemble the Flipflopi with the help of local craftsmen. The core structure, ribs, and keel are made using plastics, while the outer layer and body are made from flipflops to make it colorful and eye-catching.

Dipesh Pabari, project leader, revealed to UN Environment that the goal of this boat is to tell the world about the harm of single-use plastics. More specific, they try to avoid what is happening to developed countries which are influx with plastics by raising awareness of consumers in the Indian Ocean.

It's a critical issue to handle, considering plastic contamination doesn't just influence the earth, it slaughters fish, as well as gets into what we consume and many other harms also.

A large amount of plastic is released into the seas every year, so we truly need to do something about it immediately.