Thursday, March 3, 2011

Tour of a School built with Bottles

This past week Lizzy and I attended a workshop to learn how to turn ordinary plastic garbage and bottles into buildings. The above picture is of a school on the other side of the mountain from where we live and the top left floor was a classroom addition constructed using these "ecoladrillos" or plastic bottle bricks. The community came together to collect the trash, stuff the bottles and then place them in the walls. We are trying to organize our own bottle structure project in our community. Stay tuned!

Here you can see the bottles that make up the walls minus the cement and plaster.

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