Plastiki, the Boat Constructed from Plastic Bottles

The purpose of this boat is to create awareness of the Gyre.

Great Web site> http://www.theplastiki.com/

It has just sailed in to Sydney Harbor.

RECYCLED ISLAND

http://www.recycledisland.com/index.html

The North Pacific Gyre of plastic to be used as building material for an island?  This is not a well researched plan but I wanted to share it anyway just to show the successiveness of it. It’s useful to imagine their vision, improve upon it.. make it better, adapt parts of it for something else.

The web site says the settlement will have it’s own energy and food sources. In the plan.. making fertile ground from humanure, mixed use development (ofcourse though the drawing looks very not mixed use then again it’s the size of Spain) , waves for energy, seed weed cultivation as a food, fuel, fertilizer, medicine,– ect.

Recycled island is a research project on the potential of realizing a habitable floating island in the Pacific Ocean made from all the plastic waste that is momentarily floating around in the ocean.The proposal has three main aims; Cleaning our oceans from a gigantic amount of plastic waste; Creating new land; And constructing a sustainable habitat. Recycled island seeks the possibilities to recycle the plastic waste on the spot and to recycle it into a floating entity. The constructive and marine technical aspects take part in the project of creating a sea worthy island.