Recycling Plastics to Crop Vegetables in Seawater: 1- The Floating Greenhouse Bottle

Manuel Jiménez Aguilar

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Recycling Plastics to Crop Vegetables in Seawater: 1- The Floating Greenhouse Bottle

Manuel Jiménez Aguilar

Published in International Journal of Systems Engineering (Volume 3, Issue 2)

Received: 5 November 2019 Accepted: 11 December 2019 Published: 23 December 2019

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The objective of the study was the design of a floating greenhouse for growing edible plants in the sea. The elements necessary for growing plants in the sea a low cost would be a solar still for producing freshwater and a pot or container for plant support and breeding. To perform the functions of solar still plastic bottles for packaging olive oil were used. With this plastic bottle as top and a Trap for Wasps made of plastic or a metallic Mold to make baked biscuits as base it was possible to build a small solar greenhouse and use seawater to grow some man edible plants such as spinach (Spinacia oleracea L. ) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) The floating greenhouse bottle can be used for growing plants in lakes or freshwater marshes as well as in salt lakes or in the sea. It would have application for cultivation of edible and industrial crops, algae or biofuels, plants to reduce the greenhouse effect, as a system for the recycling of plastic bottles and to reduce the cost of freshwater needed for Agriculture. By not producing waste is considered an ecological and cheap system to produce some food without spending energy because it uses seawater and solar heat.

Published in	International Journal of Systems Engineering (Volume 3, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijse.20190302.12
Page(s)	25-28
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Desalination, Seawater, Solar Still, Greenhouse, Vegetables, Recycling Plastic

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Manuel Jiménez Aguilar. (2019). Recycling Plastics to Crop Vegetables in Seawater: 1- The Floating Greenhouse Bottle. International Journal of Systems Engineering, 3(2), 25-28. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijse.20190302.12

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Manuel Jiménez Aguilar. Recycling Plastics to Crop Vegetables in Seawater: 1- The Floating Greenhouse Bottle. Int. J. Syst. Eng. 2019, 3(2), 25-28. doi: 10.11648/j.ijse.20190302.12

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Manuel Jiménez Aguilar. Recycling Plastics to Crop Vegetables in Seawater: 1- The Floating Greenhouse Bottle. Int J Syst Eng. 2019;3(2):25-28. doi: 10.11648/j.ijse.20190302.12

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Manuel Jiménez Aguilar

Andalusian Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Andalusian Regional Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment, Government of Andalusia, Granada, Spain

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Manuel Jiménez Aguilar. Recycling Plastics to Crop Vegetables in Seawater: 1- The Floating Greenhouse Bottle. Int J Syst Eng. 2019;3(2):25-28. doi: 10.11648/j.ijse.20190302.12

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