– Cheap and easy to manufacture, they’re bulletproof and can withstand fires and earthquakes.
– They’re also good for the environment and offer a good solution to the housing crisis.
Plastic is everywhere in this world, you only have to look at the side of the road or go to the beach to know this is true!
The problem with plastic is that it can take thousands of years to degree, damaging the environment and creating an almighty mess for people everywhere.
So what can you do with all the leftover plastic the modern world generates?
These ingenious Nigerians appear to have come up with the answer, you build homes!
The Kaduna based NGO Development Association for Renewable Energies, with help from London-based NGO Africa Community Trust, is using discarded plastic bottles to build cheap and efficient houses for poor Nigerians.
The houses are designed to produce zero carbon emissions and are completely powered by solar panels and methane gas made from recycled human and animal waste.
To create a two-bedroom bottle house, workers fill plastic bottles with sand and then hold them together using mud and cement.
This forms a solid wall that is even stronger than cinder blocks.
These colorful homes are also bulletproof, fireproof, and can even withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters.
They can also hold a comfortable temperature inside all year round, make the houses a pleasant place to live.
The buildings can be built to three stories, but no higher, due to the weight of the sand-filled bottles, and are completely unique in appearance thanks to the different kinds of bottles used.
A two-bedroom house requires 14,000 bottles to complete, but to put this into perspective, Nigeria throws away three million bottles every day!
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