Philippines built classrooms with recycled plastic bottles

Philippine educators used recycled materials such as plastic bottles and glass to build classrooms.

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Classes with recycled bottles

Payatas Primary School, Laguna Province has only one class, more than 70 students have to sit crowded, the rest have to study at a makeshift house. The class was too crowded, so during the lesson, it was very noisy, many children could not listen to the lecture.

According to the Philippines Ministry of Education statistics, the country needs to build up to 68,000 new classrooms to solve the shortage. However, funding constraints have made the Philippines unable to do so.

Now, people in Laguna have found a temporary effective solution to cope with the lack of classrooms. That is building a spacious and solid classroom with recycled materials such as used plastic bottles and glass.

Telegraph said, plastic bottles filled with cement were mixed with water and tied together to form walls of the house. The holes on both sides are used for ventilation.

Payatas Primary School has completed 8 such classes. It is expected that the school will continue to build more similar classes. Classrooms are twice as large as standard, while construction costs are only a third.