Architecture Firm Wants to Make Ocean Pollution Into Floating Plastic Island

The idea for the massive Recycled Island was developed by WHIM architecture as a way to clean the oceans and create a new floating habitat dedicated to sustainable living, complete with beaches, farms, and buildings. Ideally placed in the Pacific, between San Francisco and Hawaii, the island would be some 4 thousand square miles of plastic 'land' upon which plastic communities would be built.

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Bravo comment: Since the danger of plastic leaching and settling on the ocean floor wouldn't be eliminated, does this really do what we want?

Architecture Firm Wants to Make Ocean Pollution Into Floating Plastic Island