Description

Students of the Rotterdam University are exploring the potential of recycling the plastic pollution in the river the Maas to a new floating habitat. The project is a collaboration with the Rotterdam Municipality and WHIM architecture.
Marine litter is human-created waste that has deliberately or accidentally been released in a lake, sea, ocean or waterway. The Maas (Meuse) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea. It has a total length of 925 km. Rotterdam is the last city the river runs through before it ends in the Sea. Therefor Rotterdam has a large potential in extracting the river’s floating waste before it reaches the sea and becomes part the increasing floating oceanic debris.
Large parts of Rotterdam are below sea level. Floating habitats are climate proof and resistant to flood.