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Trash IslesLADbible and Plastic Oceans Foundation want the United Nations to acknowledge Trash Isles as a country.1
Trash Isles FlagA plastic bottle is on Trash Isles' flag.2
Trash Isles PassportThe front of the Trash Isles passport reads, "The ocean needs us."3
Trash Isles Passport Al GoreAl Gore is the first citizen of Trash Isles.4
Trash Isles Passport CitizenThe inside of the passport states eight million metric tons of plastic are dumped in Earth's oceans yearly.5
Trash Isles Passport StampsRecycled materials comprise the passports.6
Trash Isles 20 DebrisTrash Isles currency is called Debris.7
Trash Isles 20 Debris NoteDebris feature images of marine creatures trapped in or swimming among trash.8
Trash Isles 50 DebrisLADbible and Plastic Oceans Foundation want the nations of the world to clean up Trash Isles.9
Trash Isles 50 Debris NoteTrash Isles is in the Pacific Ocean.10
Trash Isles 100 DebrisTrash Isles would be Earth's 196th nation.11
Trash Isles 100 Debris NotePeople can sign up to be citizens of Trash Isles on Change.org.12
Trash Isles StampsLondon-based designer Mario Kerkstra designed the passports, currency, flag, and stamps.13
Trash Isles Full Width Tall<a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/plastic/" target="_blank">Plastic</a> trash is polluting our <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/oceans/" target="_blank">oceans</a>, and now there's a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/garbage-patch/" target="_blank">garbage patch</a> near Hawaii that is around the size of the entire country of France. The charity <a href="https://www.plasticoceans.org/" target="_blank">Plastic Oceans Foundation</a> and publication <a href="http://www.ladbible.com/" target="_blank">LADbible</a> want to have the patch acknowledged as a country, called <a href="http://www.ladbible.com/trashisles" target="_blank">Trash Isles</a>, to not only raise awareness, but try to get the area cleaned up.14
