3 Amazing Garbage Islands

Believe it or not, in Japan's Tokyo Bay, there are being made large garbage islands with airports and skyscrapers on them! AND in the Pacific Ocean there is a floating garbage island that's twice the size of Texas!






Garbage Islands with Airport

These photos show the construction of the giant artificial island using garbage in Tokyo for an airport.









There are more pictures of this island at Archibase Architecture News.

Update: I have made a mistake. This island is not in Tokyo Bay but in a bay called Ise in Tokoname City in central Japan. This airport is called Chūbu Centrair International Airport and according to Wikipedia's article on this island it is Japan's 8 busiest airport.

This island airport is Japan's third off-shore airport, after Nagasaki Airport and Kansai International Airport, and second airport on a man-made island. Also according to wikipedia there are currently 5 offshore airports in Japan!

Floating Garbage Island Twice The Size of Texas!


(image credit: mindfully.org)

I came across many articles in various sites about this garbage island that's twice the size of Texas that's floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii! However it is not an island in the solid sense. Here is an excerpt about this "island" from a blogger who had got it the Popular Science Blog.

"A heap of trash that's twice the size of Texas is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as it's called, is 80 percent plastic, and weighs in at 3.5 million tons. Trapped in a circular course by winds and currents, it's been around since the 1950s, and has been growing tenfold every decade. It's not a dumping ground in the sense that people are flying or boating by and throwing their refuse into the heap. Instead, it's picking up trash that originates onshore, and has since made its way out into the Pacific."

But who knows, if we keep on polluting we may actually one day make it.

The Beautfiul Garbage Island



This is an island in Maldives (a tiny island nation south west of Sri Lanka). According to a comment in Flickr where I found this photo, this island was a reef before but after reclaiming it with garbage and waste it has now become a big island used for industrial purposes. The smoke you see is the burning of all the waste brought from the capital Male island.

Side note: I was very amused to see a visitor had come to the ultra luxury Dubai palm islands post by searching in Yahoo for "garbage islands in Dubaay." I'm very thankful to whoever it was because a little bit of searching for that term shocked me with these interesting stuff about garbage islands. Who would have thought there is so much amazing things out there for even garbage islands! :-)