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Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island?

Posted by samzenpus on from the welcome-to-malignancy-island dept.

thefickler writes "The Pacific Ocean trash dump is twice the size of Texas, or the size of Spain combined with France. The Pacific Vortex, as it is sometimes called, is made up of four million tons of plastic. Now, there's a proposal to turn this dump into 'Recycled Island.' The Netherlands Architecture Fund has provided the grant money for the project, and the WHIM architecture firm is conducting the research and design of Recycled Island. One of the three major aims of the project is to clean up the floating trash by recycling it on site. Two, the project would create new land for sustainable habitation complete with its own food sources and energy sources. Lastly, Recycled Island is to be a seaworthy island. While at the moment the project is still more or less a pipe dream, it's great that someone is trying to work out what to do with one of humanity's most bizarre environmental slip-ups."

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  1. Plastic People of Recyclistan by Renderer+of+Evil · · Score: 4, Funny

    We already have that. It's call Los Angeles.

    1. Re:Plastic People of Recyclistan by BigSes · · Score: 4, Funny

      What does Cleveland waste? Hopes and dreams?

    2. Re:Plastic People of Recyclistan by Bemopolis · · Score: 4, Funny

      Seven years of LeBron James.

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  2. Let's Go Global! by Itninja · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...twice the size of Texas, or the size of Spain combined with France...

    Or how about 1/7th the size of Brazil! Or maybe the size of 5 Ecuadors! Or the size of 1 1/10 Chads! This is fun! Who's got one?

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  3. Re:Tiny bits... by deniable · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look where it is now.

    Did it move? :)

  4. Re:Sink it. by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    And how do you propose making a concentration of individual pieces of plastics, chemicals, and other misc objects all heavier than water?

    Glue rocks to them.

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  5. Re:Something is missing here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a see issue, but my optometrist isn't Dutch.

  6. Re:Sink it. by Pieroxy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me know when you figure out a method to glue 1 trillion individual molecules to pieces of rocks.

    Buy lots of glue.

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  7. Re:Sink it. by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously, with 1 trillion little metal-foil tubes of superglue. Don't be daft.