Utilizing recycled plastic collected from the ocean, one innovative Dutch design firm has plans to create an island the size of Hawaii for climate refugees while also raising awareness about the Great Pacific Gyre.
The Recycled Island project, from Rotterdam-based Whim Architects, will provide a sustainable home for climate change refugees with vast food farms, renewable energy, humanure recycling and water harvesting. Refugees will live in homes made entirely from recycled plastic.
Creating Recycled Island will take a great deal of energy and is an enormous engineering task - just to collect the plastic ‘soup’ in the ocean and change it into usable building materials, but it certainly is a novel approach to the ocean trash problem.
Visit: http://www.recycledisland.com/
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written by Uher , April 15, 2010
written by andre , May 12, 2010
written by ear , May 12, 2010
I have an idea, a plastic car with plastic square wheels, (For cutting corners) and when parked, who needs a handbrake! , that runs on burning plastic, now scrap cars can be used as fuel, Just fantastic!
written by Ken & Barbie , May 12, 2010
A company in England is using a mixture of plastics to produce a panel suitable for lighter construction now.
The time and labor comes in with filtering the vast amounts of plastics out of that much water, and creating a process on site(boat) to perform the process.
This could start small and as the conversion progresses, it also gets faster and more efficient.
Don't think small, Dream big.
written by Lab Rat , May 13, 2010
written by Brittanny Graham , May 13, 2010
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A good laugh, though. : )
written by pluckfastic.org , April 13, 2010