Council leader Peter Charon rightly calls for zero tolerance to littering (Have Your Say, October 12).
The Plastiki Expedition ended on July 26.
The Plastiki craft, made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and powered by renewables, covered 8,000 nautical miles.
The four month voyage, starting at San Francisco, California, finishing in Sydney, Australia, called attention to the problems of the world’s collective waste, including the area of plastic six times the size of the UK floating in the Pacific.
The six permanent crew on the Plastiki included such names as Heyerdahl and Rothschild. The British skipper, Jo Royle, on a life-changing earlier visit to the Antarctic, said: “Exploring the remote shoreline I was faced with a staggering accumulation of human debris and it broke my heart.”
The oceans and the life within it are our life-support and need to be treasured. Let’s reduce our plastic consumption for a start. Please see theplastiki.com.
Susan Chapman, Parkwood Road, Southbourne
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