The plastic can’t fully power the boat, it has an engine, but it will also uses large sails, two wind turbines, and solar panels, so it can move without any fossil fuels most of the time.

The Plastiki, a boat with a hull built of 12,500 plastic bottles, was set to sail from a Sausalito yacht harbor this morning on a risky and adventurous voyage across the Pacific. The purpose, said ...

The £800 Foldboat is folded from a 8ft by 5ft piece of plastic and can be transformed from a flat sheet to a rowing boat by a single person in two minutes using only three components.