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Recycled plastic bottle boat completes Pacific voyage

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AlJazeeraEnglish | 26 July 2010 A boat made almost entirely from plastic bottles has arrived safely in the Australian city of Sydney, ending its 12,000km journey across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco where it took off. The voyage was conceived as a way to highlight the perils of plastic in the seas. Al Jazeera's Alison Rourke reports.

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