An explorer has introduced a sailboat known as 'Plastiki', which is constructed of more than 12,000 recycled plastic bottles.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the boat has been manufactured by David de Rothschild, who plans to sail the spectacular craft from California to Sydney, Australia.

Accompanying him will be a crew including skipper Jo Royle, co-skipper David Thomson, and Josian and Olav Heyerdahl.

"We're leaving San Francisco for Sydney, will sail down the coast to San Diego and Baja, then catch the currents and trade winds that take us across toward the Equator, toward the Line Islands", quoted Rothschild.

De Rothschild, 31, descendant of England's Rothschild banking dynasty, expects the voyage will shed light on the vast amount of pollution, particularly plastic, that ends up in oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles each year.

"On Plastiki, the seeds are the bottles. Individually, they're fairly soft and fragile, but packed together they become buoyant, strong, and stable. That's where the inspiration for the makeup of the hull came from", he added.