Category: Earth Intelligence

This year's top Katerva Award went to young Dutchman Boylan Slat for his super ocean cleaner project for coralling and sucking up plastics faster than anyone else so far.

In August, he will conduct a “Mega Expedition,” leading fifty ships between Hawaii and California in the first-ever effort to create a high-resolution map of oceanic plastic deposits. In a press release, Slat claims the expedition will “collect more plastic measurements in three weeks than have been collected in the past 40 years combined.” – Learn more.

Pellets can be made on a small scale – with so much plastic around. I think the most effective scale is that of every town – any recycling department should be making plastic wares. Dave Hakkens, our friend, does this. See the shredder.

Solar Power is in our  plan with our Solar Powered Materials Production Facility – to produce brick, lumber, insulation, concrete, glazing, paint – rolling out in 2017, and Kickstarting in a week. Glazing is the plastic – though plumbing and composite lumber are part of the deal. Plastic recycling is in the works for the Open Building Institute that we are starting – where the first practical implementation is 3D printing multiwall polycarbonate greenhouse glazing – almost for free from, for examply – recycled CDs. Learn more.  Making wood-plastic lumber, tubing, and sheet is part of our plan.