Hawaii-sized recycled island to be built from ocean garbage patch
Material from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to be collected, melted down and rebuilt into a floating paradise for green tourism.
OCEAN DEBRIS: Some estimates suggest that a Texas-sized soup of trash floats in the North Pacific Gyre. (Photo: Ingrid Taylar/Flickr) 
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I assume this is an April Fools joke. Even if it wasnt, a better idea in an unmanned barge, computer controlled, with an automated scoop for the trash. Dumped it a furnace, it would produce enough energy to keep moving 24/7 and produce electricity. Perhaps it could be coupled to a desalination plant that dumped pure water into barges for transport.
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Something needs to be done with all the trash floating in our oceans. But this? Even melting it down, wouldn't we still have the problem of a huge chunk of plastic floating in the ocean, being dedstroyed bit by bit by salty sea waves, extreme temperatures, and sunlight?
I'm not a scientist by any stretch of my imagination, but I do know that melting the plastics would be altering the chemistry of the make-up possibly allowing for more extreme temperature changes. The composite would be in a size not easily ingested by sealife which is the best advantage to going ahead with a project that will gather the tiny pieces besides the large nettings that is trapping and killing sealife.
The possibilities is so advantageous, I can't help but get excited over.... More
How much does it cost both in environment, and money to build an island the size of hawaii? this will be a titanic failure if its attempted
Lost of the icebergs-ice shelves - ice caps would be like living without an icebox and possibly cover source of electricity for an icebox ...
but in respect to the cost ... ??? most of the sustainable material is there floating in the trash pile ... cost as to comparable "what"??? In virw and terms of such an endeavor, I think it's worth the try ... again, the only reservations I see with a project like this is the unforeseen forces of nature ~ which we're subjected to presently, while.... More
You gotta be kiddin' me. All that plastic and other trash out there....and all these left wing fruit cakes can think of is make an island out of it? lmfao...is it 2012 yet??
Environmentalism shouldn't even be political.
It's humanities. It's a global issue.
It affects everyone.
What should be political is how we deal with the problem, not whether or not we should deal with it (or, god forbid, that a problem even exists).
Really? You didn't notice the April 1st date??? Or are you too busy surfing the net posting stupid anti-liberal comments about every damn thing you come across?
If there is any government - Nation involved, it isn't stated in the article ... the conception comes from an imaginative Dutch architect, so I'm assuming it will be a private enterprise to start ~ with possible endorsements from entities that have sent research teams to study the site.- from environmental groups that are concerned with the ocean's pollution - possibly from the far-sighted President of the Maldives and other island governments in the Pacific ... omit the left wing fruit cakes.... More
This is the greatest idea to deal with the dilemma of rising ocean levels and the floating trash; all the basic principles needed to envision the project is ... the only possible shakable reserve I can entertain with this concept is what the structures would have to tolerate to accommodate the shifting "land" as it rise and fall with the current action that will flow beneath the expanse ... will it "sit" on "land" like floating quays ... ? This concept works for the people of Viet Nam -.... More
...and impossible
happy April Fool's Day : )
The project has a website so maybe they are serious
http://www.recycledisland.com/
Is this a real project? I can't tell!
