One use for 150,000 plastic bottles: Build your own personal island

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By Holly RichmondMay 13, 2014, 6:42 pm34 pts
Anyone who waits a whole year for his homemade solar oven to bake a cake has to be a little batty, but Richart Sowa seems to be so in a good way. The former carpenter assembled a mass of recycled junk over almost seven years to make his own personal island near Cancun. Sowa gathered bags of more than 150,000…

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