The plastics home

In the Argentine national park famous for the majestic Iguazu Falls - higher but less famous than Niagara Falls - there is a truly original house, built primarily using post-consumer plastic products. The owner, Alfredo Santacruz, has built it using 1,200 PET bottles for the walls, 1,300 food packages for the roof and 140 compact disk cases for the doors and windows. A further 320 bottles were employed to create the furniture and the last 200 for the bed. This is one of the many, original, and always wonderful examples of recycling of plastics scrap or end-of-life products that Plastics the Mag offers in its monthly newsletter.