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Plastic-Reuse Revolution

In Year 8 we were lucky to have an external online presentation from Ben Morison the founder of the Flipflopi project.

With his team,  a boat was constructed entirely from recycled plastics and then went onto sail around the coast of Kenya to raise awareness of the issue of single use plastics.

For more information on this amazing project visit:

 http://www.theflipflopi.com/

Here are a few pieces of feedback from talk from students Nayan Mattu, Amelia Frisk and Kabinaya Thayantham.

'It was really good. It was really interesting to hear what he had done.'

'It was nice to see someone who had a dream when they were younger. It was good to see them follow through with it.'

'I am intrigued to know what the next boat would look like.'

Here is a photo of the boat on it's first expedition......