That’s what Tateh Lehbib Breica, 27, does, building houses out of simple plastic bottles filled with sand in Algeria. The bottles are cemented together and are much more fitting to withstand the severe heat of the region than almost any other material.
Some clever person made a boat from scratch using plastic bottles.
22 year old students, Zara Yang and Jakub Bures built this 10 foot boat using 5000 plastic bottles that are tied to a wooden frame. The project aims to draw attention to the problem of plastic pollution in Europe and it is pretty remarkable.
British eco-pioneer Rishi Sowa began constructing his first Spiral Island in 1998. He used around 250,000 plastic bottles to build a 66x54ft (20x16m) island which was located in a lagoon near Puerto Aventuras, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.Unfortunately, it was completely destroyed by Hurricane Emily in 2005, but not discouraged, he decided to build a new one: Spiral Island II!
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