AEQUOREA BRAZIL –
The architectural project is called Aequorea, was thought in Brazil and If it were to come to fruition, it would lead to the creation of small islands based on recycling, capable of hosting up to 20 thousand inhabitants.Many of whom could be environmental refugees, men and women fleeing their countries due to global warming.
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SELF-SUFFICIENT WATER VILLAGE –
The projects include coworking spaces, waste recycling facilities, hotels, sports centers, a residential area, green spaces, urban gardens, and greenhouses. The islands are made of marine buildings made of algoplast, a resistant mixture of seaweed and recycled plastic, of which the ocean is truly full.
PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE SEA –
According to UNESCO calculations every square kilometer of sea contains 16 thousand pieces of plastic to be disposed of, in addition to garbage and untreated wastewater. A a deadly mix that has created a gigantic "dead zone", 24 times the size of the city of Rome, where the marine ecosystem has been definitively destroyed and no organism can continue to live.
TO KNOW MORE: The sea is a garbage dump: in a few years we will have more plastic waste than fish.
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