Man builds a paradise off the Coast of Mexico with Recycle bottles

Richart Sowa, 61, spent the past seven years carefully constructing a floating eco-paradise - complete with a hot tub and Internet connection - out of 150,000 recycled bottles on Joyxee Island near Cancun, Mexico.

The three-storey house on the island boasts, two bedrooms, a hot tub, three shell showers, a kitchen and working Internet. It is surrounded by palm trees, mangroves, fruit trees and edible herbs and plants, which all grow from the sand and soil of the hand-made island. A 100ft-long umbilical cord connects the island to the shore and provides solar generated electricity, water and internet.

Despite being 30-yards from the shore and having a base made from air-filled plastic bottles, wood pallets and sand, Mr Sowa insists his island has all the mod-cons a lady could want.

 

'My plan is to become self-sufficient, I am a vegetarian and have many plants growing on the Island which I eat, but for more variety I go by bicycle to the nearby local shop,' said Mr Sowa.

 

 

 

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