Plastic Bottles

We talked for a short time last week about the evil plastic bottle and one of the problems with them being the floating mess of them in the middle of the Pacific...and then I saw this today:
Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island? |
| from the welcome-to-malignancy-island dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 15, @00:26 (Earth) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/15/0033244/Pacific-Trash-Vortex-To-Become-Habitable-I|
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thefickler writes "The [0]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 [1]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."

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/07/15/0033244

Links:
0. http://green.blorge.com/2009/11/the-pacific-ocean-trash-dump-revisited/
1. http://green.blorge.com/2010/07/recycled-island-will-be-created-from-plastic-waste-in-the-pacific-ocean/