Plastic Waste
It’s not like the difficulties posed by city life vanished the minute you bought your island. Realistically, unless you’ve got it in mind to live off wild mollusks or tree bark, you’re going to accumulate a fair bit of waste. With all the options for creative living posed by your private little world, how about options for disposing recyclable waste in an equally creative manner?
Reishee Sowa, a resident of Puerto Aventuras, Mexico, is a great example of what you can pull off with a little ingenuity and a green conscience. Dissatisfied with life as a landlubber, he took the long way around finding a private island by building his own using the simplest of means- a quarter million used pop bottles. After tossing in some construction scraps and a few bags of dead leaves, he created an “eco space-creating ship”, complete with the means to retain rainwater for showers, a composting toilet and enough space to live comfortably.
That’s not to say you should collect every empty bottle of Dr. Pepper for future use as an offshore landing pad, but using plastic refuse to collect water for treatment and sanitation can reduce the impact suffered by our swelling scrapyards, not to mention lend you a bragging right or two as an innovative, earth-loving islomaniac.
