| This Expat Built His Own Private Island in Mexico Out of Recycled Plastic Bottles Mexico News Daily | |
| go to original November 24, 2014 |
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Having your own private island would usually require a fair bit of cash, but for British artist Richart Sowa it took recycled plastic bottles — 150,000 of them.
Sowa’s Joyxee Island floats in a bay off Isla Mujeres, near Cancún, some 30 meters from the beach. It is 740 square meters in area and boasts a three-storey house, surrounded by palm trees, mangroves, fruit trees, herbs and other plants.
Everything sits on sand and soil atop the flotation provided by the plastic bottles and wooden pallets. Joyxee Island even has three beaches.
Sowa, 61, spent seven years building his floating paradise — his third. The last one, Spiral Island, was located south of Cancún but it was destroyed by a hurricane in 2005.
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