He can create bio gas for cooking. Biotech-India has the technology. It is simple and very efficient. He must try to incorporate this in his island too.
I am not so sure about that, I mean I reckon once roots start growing through the bags with bottles then the bottles sooner or later are bound to get punctured, thus taking in water which results in loss of buoyancy for the whole island. So while the roots help to strengthen the overall structure, they will also ensure the structure will eventually sink altogether :D but maybe the guy invented some sort of way to avoid this, go knows)
Cye Knox Think about it, the bottles are holding up a super heavy island, they have to have a lot of pressure on them. Its because of that pressure that the roots will probably have to pierce through them.
@@averystrangeghostlysquid7637 I have dug up trash all over the woods and collected bottles out of a large lake near my house. I have never seen roots penetrate intact plastic bottles.
The Dylan Chanell Can you also produce sentences like a normal human being or are you too much of a generic pewdiecancer fantard to be able to do that?
He is extremely intelligent and creative. He created his dream island/home self sufficient. That's fascinating. And he registered this island from the government to make a legal. Smart.
Holy cow, I used to hang out with him back in the 90's when I lived in Puerto while he was making his first island. I even shaved a spiral in my hair and took pics with him standing next to the island. Ahhh I wish I could find those pics. Good times
I know right? He is amazing....you should join my facebook page floating food forests...I post all kinds of cool floating island related posts there. I plan to build my own as soon as I get a little capital.
So everything is running off of plastic bottles this is AMAZING btw sry I keep on commenting on ur vids it just amazes me how talented these people are
@@NoBuddy89 It's when plastic slowly breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. I'm not sure if you'll get them in this case, but it can't be healthy to grow food in a bed of plastic bottles. It's barely safe to store water in them long term because chemicals leach out of the plastic.
I had opportunity to get involved with this guy project here in Brazil and that was literally something else... he has a good energy and compromise with his project in a way that i've never imagined. I was collecting some plastic bottles and learning a lot about the process to get the island made itself: he said the same results that we commonly have in the nature when you're planting a seed of a tree for example, in this plastic island you gonna have the same results in a shorter time... I was pretty excited to help him out cos we were basically using a noxious substance that kills and pollute to gives life once again, to keep providing... Sustainability is the key.
Oh my god. I’ve heard of rafts and boats made out of recycled bottles, but a whole island. Wow! This guy is amazing and so inspirational. I can’t wait to make something similar when I’m older.
@@gorilleoutan8747 Mandarin negative brother I have had two liter bottles being used as floating devices to feed my fish in pond these two liter bottles have been there since I have moved in here 13yrs ago under my pier the rope I've had to change several times but the bottles are fine covered in Alge but other then that fine
Those phthalates are going to mess around with hormones just as they can mess up a little boy's hormones and testosterone levels which may explain the increase of excessively effeminate men.
Just so you know. He abandoned that thing and eventually collapsed. After several months of it littering the lagoon, mexican authorities had to take it appart because it was a potential hazard. It took several months and about 30 volunteers to finally clean all of the trash this guy collected there. He is nowhere to be found and doesn't take responsability for all the mess he created.
@@oasiscrushinglife6878 drop a cube of ice in a glass of water. The ocean is just a giant glass. When we build entire islands it's the same as throwing ice cubes in it.
@@fullofragrets8657 lmao you dont realise how big the oceans are. You could put a million of these island in the water you we couldnt even measure the difference of the sea level
@Braxton McGuire So you would love to live on a huge wobbely pile of trash that’s floating in a river and probably doesn’t feel all that nice as soon as it’s raining season?
in the next 265 billion years maybe we will need floating islands or by then we've probably migrated to another planet but despite that it is extremely clever and is helping with pollution 👍
He abandoned that thing and eventually collapsed. After several months of it littering the lagoon, mexican authorities had to take it appart because it was a potential hazard. It took several months and about 30 volunteers to finally clean all of the trash this guy collected there. He is nowhere to be found and doesn't take responsability for all the mess he created.
It doesn't really release anything.. Other videos, explains how this is working. But basically, the sun is what breaks down plastic, and it doesn't reach the under the island. Also, algea form around, protecting it even further. The mangrove roots, entangle themselves in the bags, and therefore create another barrier, which also holds the bags in place.. He is collecting garbage that would otherwise float into the garbage patch in the pacific ocean. Or lay and rott in some landfill, creating the microplastic you are worried about. Which will spread by the wind, everywhere. This island even creates a sanctuary for creatures living in the water.. Algea feeds crabs, shrimp and fish, which again feed bigger fish, but it also gives hiding places, where the same creatures can spawn. It's a nice ecosystem. His feces, are nutrients for the plants living there. It needs 2 years to compost, for it to be okay for food purpose soil. But leaves and such, also create its own soil, as it rotts. Micro organisms, will break down feces, and leaves, and make it into useful soil. Most ecological harvest, are grown in animal feces. It's the plants food, it's how they get the nutrients to grow big.. Even tasty.. If you water your tomatoes with male urine mixed in the water, they will develop more flavour, and grow bigger. It's called gold water for a reason. And it can also help keeping deer, rabbits and such, away from the crop..
@@Galemor1 "male urine" got my attention. Please do you mind explaining? Is male urine any different to female urine when it comes to using it to provide nutrients for plants?
@@Galemor1 Yes, in a normal environment the sun is what breaks down plastic bottles. This is sea water and it will dissolve the plastic over time, probably a lot quicker than the sun would. Even steel / metal alloy boats get eaten away by salt water, it's extremely corrosive. If this was floating on a freshwater lake it would be different but that thing in salt water will dissolve.
I know Richard well amazing person here on Isla Mujeres, hope more people find ways to reuse waste in creative ways, and that cake is really good, is not a year old, he has been cocking over a year same type of cake, cheers!!
Unfortunately The island has been since destroyed and removed in 2019 “Joyxee Island was open for tours at one point. However, it was damaged by storms and the local authorities made the owner remove it in January 2019” - Wikipedia
Some 30 years ago I wrote a fiction story about a group of people building a micronation island (named Joviala) from garbage floating in the sea, etc. I never believed it would actually happen ;-) Thanks for this video, love it!
I’m concerned for your education if you’ve never heard of one the most well known flowers in the world. It’s hibiscus and it’s used in tea and stuff. It’s not fancy weed
Yes, actually. Instead of leaving the bottles in the netted bags arbitrarily you would need to sort bottles based on size and shape. Then you would organize the bottles between the structure of the pallets and finally wrap the pallets, with neatly placed bottles with the netted material of the now empty bags. This would give the same effect as what he has but allow things to be done more neatly instead of crudely. Of course, the wildlife you used to sustain the island would grow naturally and there'd be no controlling that aspect of it. The house itself and other ammenities could obviously be produced in a much more neat manner than shown.
That doesn't change the fact that a different technique with the same garbage would create a more neat appearance and probably allow for superior buoyancy and better soil retention.
Love your place richard.it will also be a good idea to have that same island in the Philippines,coz it's full of thrash.love all your ideas.am a nature lover too.God bless
Think this guys crazy? He's starting a new country. I'm considering starting my own country aswell. What a concept. And pumps a buck from crazy island tours. Genius. True genius. No licenses or registrations for islands as their generally in a fixed position. From problem plastic bottles.
Yeah, good luck with that, man. As soon as your "country" got anything valuable on it - the nearest pirate gang will rob your ass. And if you're planning any kind of illegal or undesirable activity on your private island - the local police will shut you down.
this I will say wow that's awesome. I'll bet if we all hung out with this fella for a few months we would learn more in that time then we would in a few lifetimes of city life.
The plastic bottle idea is so intelligent that I'm surprised modern boats don't incorporate it more - plastic is relatively strong, easy to replace and when created in structure that resmbles or is akin to multiple chambers (bottles) decreases the chances of being sunk via damage. Also so much cheaper to build that you could do it as a laymen in your back garden, pop on an inflatable pool inside and you've even got a redundancy should the bottle be destroyed.
