2019 Edition

The Recycled Island Foundation makes proposals how to deal with plastic pollution and climate change. From our Rotterdam office we work on the prevention, awareness, education, retrieval and re-use of marine litter. Our key projects are currently our litter traps, to retrieve marine debris, and Recycled Park. Our litter traps and floating parks are made of recycled plastics. The litter traps retrieve plastics from rivers in multiple countries, just before it reaches sea. The plastics are recycled to give new value to the river. From the plastics we construct floating platforms for a new green environment; a floating park. Ecosystems are improved in rivers and ports by our floating parks. To stimulate the retrieval of litter, the Recycled Island Foundation looked into the potential of re-use and recycling. In collaboration with the Rotterdam municipality we found the potential in floating green structures. In this way we can stimulate the ecology in the Rotterdam harbor. With the recycled plastics we construct hexagon shaped building blocks where on, at and in new vegetation grows. Birds, fish and micro-organism find food, breeding ground and shelter in the floating park. Through the park runs a small canal about half a meter deep; small fish and birds find here shelter and the space to grow before entering the deeper waters. Recycled Park is realised in Rotterdam. After this successful implementation we are introducing this approach in more rivers and harbors worldwide. We started already in Ambon, Indonesia and in Brussels, Belgium with similar projects.