Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island?

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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Re:Something is missing here

[wtfmang!]

Obviously, that was a troll/flamebait, not offtopic. What an idiot mod.
Anyway, don't you fools realize that this is just an alternate username I made so that I can speak freely without worrying about destroying my karma rating on my real username? Once this one has been modded down enough I'll just create another. fucking duh

Re:Something is missing here

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously, that was a troll/flamebait, not offtopic. What an idiot mod. Anyway, don't you fools realize that this is just an alternate username I made so that I can speak freely without worrying about destroying my karma rating on my real username? Once this one has been modded down enough I'll just create another. fucking duh

while you are working on reducing your karma score ... how do you feel about niggers? got any jokes?

Re:Something is missing here

[wtfmang!]

as a matter of fact, I do. what do you call a nigger in a shed?


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Re:Not as dense os lead to believe

[Pikoro]

Well, did you listen to how they determine that ratio? They take a sample, then weigh all the plastic in the sample and weigh all the plankton in the sample. Duh.. the plastic weighs more than the plankton of course. Talk about skewed numbers...