A British artist collected more than 100,000 plastic bottles and built an artificial island with a house, ponds and a waterfall
- PC: Richart Sowa / FacebookBritish artist Richart Sowa spent years collecting plastic bottles for a project most people would never attempt: building an entire island to live on.
- The result, called Joyxee Island, floated roughly 30 yards off the coast of Isla Mujeres, a small island off Mexico's Caribbean coast, with its base built from nets stuffed with more than 100,000 plastic bottles.
- On top of that floating foundation, Sowa built a genuinely functional home, complete with a solar-powered electrical system, a washing machine driven by wave motion, 2 swimming ponds, a waterfall and even an
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- PC: Richart Sowa / FacebookBritish artist Richart Sowa spent years collecting plastic bottles for a project most people would never attempt: building an entire island to live on.
- The result, called Joyxee Island, floated roughly 30 yards off the coast of Isla Mujeres, a small island off Mexico's Caribbean coast, with its base built from nets stuffed with more than 100,000 plastic bottles.
- On top of that floating foundation, Sowa built a genuinely functional home, complete with a solar-powered electrical system, a washing machine driven by wave motion, 2 swimming ponds, a waterfall and even an
Sources: Times of India