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Soon, a Hawaii-sized island made from plastic waste |
LONDON: A team of Dutch researchers
are planning to make an island the size of Hawaii entirely from 44 million
kilogram of plastic waste.
Recycled island, which is part of an
environmental vision for the future, will be made from plastic waste currently
bobbing around in the Pacific Ocean. Solar and wave energy will be used to
sustain the island and its 500,000 inhabitants who will live in a city similar
to Venice, in Italy.
"The proposal has three main aims; cleaning our
oceans from a gigantic amount of plastic waster; creating new land; and
constructing a sustainable habitat," the Sun quoted a spokesman for the project
as saying.
The team plans to recycle plastic on the spot in the
North Pacific Gyre into hollow, floating blocks to act as the foundation for the
10,000 sq km island. Planners also hope to create a large area preserved for
agriculture so as to be self-sufficient in providing food for the inhabitants.
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