Richard Sowa has proven that waste that seems to have no chance of being recycled can be reused as a valuable resource. All the stuff we don’t want, all the junk we don’t know what to do with, can actually solve the world’s problems, Richart said.

To build Joyxee Island near the Mexican island of Isla Mujeres, Richart used 100,000 plywood cases and wooden planks to keep the island submerged. The island’s central core is made of plastic bottles inside a net, and between the bottles are trees with roots spreading out.

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