Recycled Island Made From Plastic To House 500,000 People

Developers have revealed plans to create a habitable island from 44,000 tonnes of waste that is currently floating in the Pacific Ocean.

It’s believed ‘Recycled Island’ may home up to 500,000 individuals and will be manufactured by trying to recycle plastics from the North Pacific Gyre in to connected hollow blocks.

The Dutch team state the island could produce power making use of solar energy as well as wave energy could additionally help clear the seas of plastic material pollution.

Diverse areas of the 3,861 square mile island could have chose jobs such as housing, harvesting, as well as tourism… as this seems like the ideal holiday getaway, huh?

A spokesperson for WHIM architecture, the company behind the audacious project, said: “We have 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.”

For more information on this project, pay a visit to recycled island.