TreeHugger readers will know of the Pacific Gyre, the “island of garbage twice the size of Texas” slowly spinning in the ocean. Like everything in life, it can be seen as a serious problem, or an opportunity. Michael Barton, in his graduating thesis at the University of British Columbia, proposes to gather it together for “the construction of a synthetic land commodity.” He won an award of Excellence from in the Annual Canadian Architect Awards for “The Enthalpy of Empty Space.” …
Good idea.
Rick McCharles 
Can’t wait to read the Legal Studies dissertation coming out soon on how to deal with littering in the new “synthetic land commodity”.
Isn’t Las Vegas made out of plastic debris?