Nigerian Homes Built From Thousands of Plastic Bottles –12x Stronger Than Brick And Earthquake Strong
Called brick bottle technology, mud houses in Nigeria are being built with plastic bottles for a third of the price, but 18 times stronger.
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As many as 14,000 plastic bottles will go in to making a house, and the company is hoping to pitch the project to the Nigerian government in order to secure some additional funding and expand the enterprise.
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More than 100 million plastic bottles are used worldwide every day!
If the world sent 1 days worth of empty water bottles to Nigeria instead of discarding them, the Nigerians could build more than 7000 homes.
Here's another use of plastic waste.