Did you know that you can make houses out of plastic bottles? By filling
them with sand, and molding them together with mud or cement, the walls created
are actually bullet proof,
fire proof, and will maintain an comfortable indoor temperature of 64 degrees
in the summer time.
And it’s not like there is any shortage on used plastic bottles out there.
Here are some statistics from treehugger.com:
“The United States uses 129.6 Million plastic
bottles per day which is 47.3 Billion plastic bottles per year. About 80% of
those plastic bottles end up in a landfill!”
To build a two bedroom, 1200 square foot home, it takes about 14,000
bottles.
The United States throws away enough plastic bottles to build 9257 of these
2 bedroom houses per day! That’s just over 3.35 million homes, the same number
of homeless people in America.
Many people in third world countries have taken up building homes out of
plastic bottles, from Africa to Asia. Perhaps the trend will catch on in
America and all of those bottles will stop ending up in the landfills. Wouldn’t
they be better off housing the homeless? Kinda like all those empty houses
scattered all over the country?
(Source : spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com)
