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A future islandmade of recycled plastic

发表时间：2011-10-17T16:16:00.140Z 来源：小教版英语周报11年27期供稿 作者：

[导读] The Pacific Ocean now holds the largest amount of plastic waste in the world, which is harmful to sea life.

An island the size of Hawaii made entirely from plastic bottles could become the most exciting and interesting place on earth, and is

part of an unbelievable environmental scene for the future.

A team of Dutch scientists plan to take 44 million kilos of plastic waste moving up and down quickly in the Pacific Ocean and turn it into

Recycled Island.

Solar and wave energy will be used to sustain the island and its 500,000 inhabitants. A spokesman for the project said: “The plan

has three main aims — cleaning our oceans from a huge amount of plastic waste, creating new land, and building a sustainable habitat.”

Recycled Island seeks the possibilities to recycle the plastic waste on the spot and to recycle it into a floating unit.

The Pacific Ocean now holds the largest amount of plastic waste in the world, which is harmful to sea life.

The team plans to recycle plastic on the spot — in the North Pacific Gyre — into floating blocks. The designers state that the largest

part of plastic in the ocean has the same area as France and Spain together, which means that there is quite enough plastic waste to

create a new floating island to avoid long transports.

These floating blocks will become the foundation blocks to the 10,000squarekilometre island. Planners plan to model the island on the

waterways of Venice, Italy. Alongside the modern city, they hope to create a large area for agriculture. The island will be designed as a

selfsufficient habitat with its own resources and a nonpolluting environment using only natural sources, providing food and work for the

inhabitants.

The spokesman added: “Recycled Island should be seen as a rare opportunity to create a new floating habitat without any preparation,

yet at the same time the ocean is cleaned from a huge part of its plastic pollution.”

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