Floating Island Built on 250,000 Reused Plastic Bottles

Written on Monday, November 26th, 2007 at 2:10 pm by ecojoe
Filed under eco hero, green living, off the grid, plastic, reusing.


Wow, this seems like such a great way to reuse plastic bottles. Risha Sowa, an Englishman (and official EcoJoes Eco Hero), moved to Mexico back in the ’90s and built his own private island using around 250,000 plastic bottles and sand from local beaches. He had his own solar cooker, composting toilet, and lots of pets running around. Unfortunately, Spiral Island was beached during a hurricane, but Sowa is now building a new and improved version. Here’s a video of the original Spiral Island:

Bonus Fun Fact: The host of that video is none other than good ol’ Dave Lister (Craig Charles) from Red Dwarf, a great show if I do say so myself.For more information on Rishi’s past and present islands, I heartily suggest you check out his website: Spiral Islanders.

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3 Responses to “Floating Island Built on 250,000 Reused Plastic Bottles”

  1. billie joe armstrong kids Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    billie joe armstrong kids…

    Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts…..

  2. John Taylor Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 11:25 am

    This is the sort of Island that should be floated out to the Pacific gyre where all the plastic garbage winds up. There is plenty of material there for a very big garbage island to be built.

  3. ecojoe Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Man, that is true. The downside I see to that is that there would be some huge storms and waves out there. Maybe someone could collect all those bottles and build many different floating islands that could be placed in lagoons or other sheltered bodies o’ water.

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