Rotterdam's first floating park that recycles plastic waste

PLASTIC WASTE RECYCLING –

A floating park built entirely from plastic waste. Recycled Park will arise in Rotterdam – the works started a few weeks ago, we read on Rinnovabili.it – with the task of recover plastic waste polluting the Nieuwe Maas River, to transform them into floating platforms for local flora and fauna.

Over the years the river has accumulated quintals of plastic waste coming from the hinterland, inevitably transporting them to the North Sea. The park will aim to stop this disaster: the Municipality of Rotterdam, in collaboration with WHIM architecture and Wageningen University (WUR), has decided to transform this waste into a new and unusual useful resource for creating real floating parks built precisely from recycled plastic materials.

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The process that will give life to the floating Recycled Park is very accurate: the waste will be recovered from the river thanks to a special machine and then passed to the specialists of the University of Wageningen who will indicate the best recycling technique based on the different types of plastics collected, to transform them into the appropriate hexagonal floating blocks intended for the platform.

RECYCLED PARK ROTTERDAM –

La top of the blocks It has been specially designed to accommodate an extensive roof garden, capable of accommodating even tall trees, while the part immersed in water will leave space for algae and aquatic plants.
The problem of pollution of rivers, seas and oceans is a dramatically growing phenomenon, harmful to the environment and dangerous for wildlife, the most striking case is certainly the Great Pacific Garbage Patch a real island of waste adrift in the ocean. The Recycled Park project being tested in Rotterdam was designed to be exportable to any geographical context, helping to clean up waterways and at the same time generating new green space.