House of bottles

Another example of how to reuse post-consumer plastic bottles – following the one featured in our newsletter of 9 February 2011 – is a prototype house promoted by Dare, a non-profit social utility association working for the development of renewable energy resources.
The bottle house was built in the village of Sabon Yelwa, Nigeria. Offering 58 sqm of living space, it is made of 14,000 bottles filled with sand, piled in three successive layers and tied together with an intricate network of cords. Mud and cement support the structure of bottles, whose colourful caps protrude to embellish the plasterwork.
In January 2012, near the Nigerian capital Abuja, a section of the local elementary school will be built using 200,000 post-consumer PET bottles.