Trash as a resourceful building material is undoubtedly detestable, but, consider the advantages for once. It’s an inventive way of utilizing inorganic waste to provide millions with a decent place to live while at the same time help preventing damage to the environment. Toeing the line, Bolivian Ingrid Vaca Diez is running a project by the name of Casas de Botellas or bottle houses to provide homes made from trash to Latin America’s poorest. We have already introduced you to some of the most amazing houses made from recycled bottles. Well, under the project, Ingrid is building houses using trash bottles filled with throwaway material like paper, plastic bags, batteries, sand and dirt. Thereafter, brick, lime and cement are used as binding material to hold the bottles in a web and make the entire construction permanent.
house made from plastic bottles
Companies, individuals and institutions donate other materials such as rods, roofing tiles, bricks, gravel, glass for windows, ceramic tiles, wooden frames and furniture for bathrooms and kitchens. The houses are given a finishing touch with a coat of contrasting paint while the families grow beautiful gardens around them.
So far, Ingrid has built six homes in Bolivia, one in Argentina and two in Uruguay, with Mexico getting its first in the coming days at San Pablo, a village in Tlaxcala state.
Via: LAHT/Casas de Botellas
Related Stories
Amazing houses made from recycled plastic bottles
Whenever we think of a shelter, from construction to habitation, we crave to beautify it with the best we have at our disposal. Since most of us have neither the resources nor funds to realize our aspirations, why don’t we utilize the superfluous...
Amazing creations made from recycled bottles
Art can transform any object – we can find on this planet – into something worth cherishing, and the millions of discarded plastic bottles that keep on lying here and there are no exceptions to the fact. We have seen innovators and artists coming.
Tanks to run on bridges made from recycled detergent bottles and car bumpers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Marc Green, President of Axion International, joined forces in June to build a bridge from recycled plastic. This time they take their green initiative a little further by preparing to construct new bridges made...
Blankets made from recycled plastic bottles for a noble cause
Tzu Chi Foundation, known for its contribution toward environmental protection, international relief work and the establishment of the world’s third largest marrow donor registry, has fast developed into a center of recycling. Maintaining it...
Everything I need to know about atmospheric electricity generator
The impact of atmospheric energy in the form of lightening accompanied by thunders has been probably experienced by all of us during thunderstorms or dust storms. If we can grab even a mere part of this energy, the energy scarcity of the entire world will
