Build houses from recycled plastic bottles

The city of Manila, Philippines, has just opened a house built from recycled plastic bottles.

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Stephen Lamb, founder of green company Touching the Earth Lightly in South Africa, collaborated with the Philippine government to build the house, Guardian reported.

Solar Revolution Pavilion , the name of the house, is 200m ² wide, 6m tall and uses solar energy. Workers put recycled plastic bottles into 1,600 plastic containers of vegetables to create a home.

The government allows people to visit it to introduce renewable energy and emphasize waste. Filipino educators have also used recycled materials such as plastic bottles and glass to build an elementary school in Laguna Province, Philippines in 2012.

Visitors entered the house built from plastic bottles
in Manila, Philippines on April 22. (Photo: Guardian)

Environmentalist David de Rothschild - who crossed the Pacific Ocean with a boat made of plastic bottles in 2010 - speaking at the Solar Revolution Pavilion presentation: "This is a vivid example of how you use it. Use food, home, drinking water and even energy from human resources as garbage. You can turn them into really useful items and create quality of life. "

Ilac Diaz - social entrepreneur director The Filipino - was the one who helped build a house from a plastic bottle and also a project owner of My Shelter Foundation's "Liter of Light".

Diaz's company recycles plastic bottles into solar-powered light bulbs to supply 120,000 households, with about 20 million Filipinos, living in darkness because of no electricity. He said the booth in the house will also introduce new types of solar energy that people can use at night. By installing LEDs and battery packs in plastic bottles, light bulbs from plastic bottles will provide enough light for 150 locations across the country.

Visitors to the house can also learn about other green technologies of Filipinos such as hydroponics without using land.

"It is important that we find a way to guide people to apply those technologies. The world has a lot of green technologies but these are expensive technologies from abroad. If you want people to be able to escape. Diaz commented, from the absence of electricity .