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A while back we watched the long journey of a plastic bag from a grocery store parking lot to the great garbage dump in the Pacific Ocean.
Plastic bottles cause a similar problem. The bottles are bulky and remain in landfills for hundreds of years.
Here is one imaginative solution: bundle them together and create a plastic bottle island. That is exactly what Richie Sowa has done near Cancun.
His little island paradise has a population consisting of Richie, two cats, one dog, two chickens and a duck. He continues to collect bottles to add to his island in hopes of one day taking it out to sea as a kind of small, floating country and demonstration of one way to deal with the plastic bottle threat.
Watch and and let us know what you think of this creative solution to the plastic problem.
Read more: cancun, plastic bottle island, plastic bottles, recycle, richie sowa
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+ add your ownThis is a very sad story. Other animals has to go only because "we" humans do not want to share the world with other life forms, these life forms "we" would not eat (vegetarian food is not a bad idea, or eating with conscience as the so called primitive cultures did and still do, if they still exist. No meat/fish every day). "We" destroy averything around us and "we" forget, that everything is important to survive, too.
As little child i thought that rain is when God and the angels cry - because "we" humans have forgotten that we need this "intelligence", someone who could help... if "we" hadn't turned away for many centuries ago...
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Thanks for the article and video. I believe strongly in reduce, reuse, recycle. I would rather see plastic bottles recycled, however, this is better than going into a landfill.
You have to go visit floating homes to understand that this man may be on to something. They too are floated under similar construction, and we have some here (Canada) that are almost 100 years old! What this man has done better is to be able to grow and exist on his creation. Should we follow his pattern? It's individual choice. I say "GO FOR IT" if you are so inclined. Sometimes, when you look at how densely packed in urban housing is, this man may be the wiser of the pack...
Noted!!
Stupid idea! He might be able to live on it & enjoy it for several years but eventually the fish net & plywood will rot & his island will fall apart. Where does he get drinking water & water to bathe in? If he tries to take it on a long journey, he could drown as well as his pets. Dumb, Dumb & Dumber!!
thanx Cris, good comments, at least he did something that his pets are using temporarily? Also, he's gettin attention. Adios Amigo, God Bless all Care 2 Tribe.
So many careless idiots simply throw them in the trash or on the ground. I mean, recycling is just so labor intensive and difficult. At least this guy is doing something useful with them.
No, we don't need plastic islands.
We need to figure out how to spend less money buying drinks in plastic bottles. I personally hate buying drinks such as Vitamin Water, (and others) in one-use bottles. I think those who develop and market drinks like those need to also offer a recycle and reuse policy instead of making people buy more and more plastic bottles.
Splitting garbage up into recycle and non-recycle isn't enough anymore.
Just my 2 cents...
interesting, but I still think it might be better to recycle them in other ways.
He is a legend! there is a boat made from plastic bottles called the Plastiki. Has anyone seen it? I visited it when it came to Sydney a couple of months ago. Fascinating.
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