Recycling The Pacific Garbage Patch Into A Beautiful Island

Meera Dolasia
Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:37:17 -0700

For many years now, scientists and environmentalists have been very concerned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a 500-mile area of toxic plastic waste that extends from California to the Sea of Japan. Now, some enterprising architects from Rotterdam have come up with an innovative idea - Constructing an island, the size of Hawaii, built entirely from the plastic waste.