Tons of plastic waste flooding the Pacific Ocean may no longer be a problem if, as the study of Dutch architects WHIM Architecture, are used to build a habitable artificial island, the island Recycled (Recycled Island). According to the promoters of this project, it is about achieving three objectives simultaneously: cleaning the oceans of an enormous amount of plastic waste, creating a new land and building a sustainable habitat in the middle of the sea. By transforming garbage into a building material they will help clean the ocean.
In addition, the new island, which will be built as an urban settlement but respecting nature, will use exclusively renewable energy sources, and will be self-sufficient from the point of view of food. Among other things, the cultivation of algae is planned, which in addition to being food can be used to obtain biofuel and as fertilizers.
In principle, the Recycled Island is expected to occupy an area of 10,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the area of Hawaii.
