Richie Sowa's Spiral Island II

This is pretty awesome, this guy has built an island from recycled plastic bottles. From the site:

What is Spiral Island II? It is a tropical island paradise floating on over 70,000 recycled plastic bottles. It is about 20 meters (60 feet) in diameter, and growing, soon to contain over 100,000 bottles!

From 1998 to 2005, Rishi Sowa hand-built and lived on the first Spiral Island, which floated on over 300,000 recycled bottles! It was destroyed by Hurricane Emily in 2005. Rishi has now built an even better island at Isla Mujeres, Mexico, in a lagoon which offers shelter from bad weather:
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The Trash Vortex

Saw this on Greenpeace.org:

Plastic trash and other flotsam that is either directly thrown or washed by rivers into the North Pacific, is swept up by the currents of a gigantic swirling vortex called the North Pacific Gyre. In the centre, the calm, just northeast of Hawai'i the result is a trash carpet that scientists calculate has now reached the size of Texas.
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