A Floating Vision of Plastic-Free Seas

True to the dream, their synthetic building material is indeed made of plastic collected from Lamu’s shores. In all, the boat will repurpose about 45 tons of waste, the first five of which were gathered from a 5-km stretch of beach in a single afternoon by a team of 50 volunteers in September 2016. Sorted and shredded, the plastics are melted, mixed and molded into rough beams and planks by Regeneration Africa, a regional recycler.

No matter how the dream plays out, Morison and the FlipFlopi team hope their work inspires cleanup and prevention of ocean plastic pollution, and helps rid the world of single-use plastics. n