Poly-Mer the world’s first vessel built from recycled plastic

A small group of parents and staff from Canary Wharf College came together to find ways that we could enhance the school and raise money for outdoor activities. I was lucky enough to be part of this group.

One person said “how about building a boat, to use to clean our docks”.

This was the birth of the idea. We used a safety vessel, kindly lent to us by the DSWC, and took out our own children to trail the idea.  We set off on a cold, wet February weekend in the search for plastic rubbish and treasure! As the horizontal rain lashed down, we adults wondered “why are we doing this?” but the children loved it, young Harry said “this is not fishing, this is so much more than fishing”. They had a BALL, thrived on it, it was from this moment we knew we had a winner.

The “Original Plastic Fishing Team at the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre, Feb 2017.

“This is not Fishing, this is so much more than fishing”!