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Buildings made from plastic bottles

are popping up all over the world

reenhouses made from plastic being sent to the landfills, where it’s
bottles are all the rage in estimated that they could take up to
GEurope and one can even use 500 years to disintegrate.
plastic bottles to build funky dividing
screens for offices and restaurants. It’s said that structures built using
Here in SA, the residents of the Thabo plastic bottles provide good insulation
Mbeki informal settlement are using and are exceptionally strong.
discarded plastic bottles to build their According to reports, a two-bedroom
new Skills Development Centre where house with a toilet, kitchen, and
members of the community will learn living room would require around
skills that will help them get jobs and 14 000 two-litre plastic bottles for the
even start their own businesses. construction. Of course, for the skills
development centre at the Thabo
For the construction of the new Mbeki informal settlement, many more
skills development centre, the local bottles will be required, but there’s
residents are filling used plastic cold a lot of support from volunteers in
drink bottles with plastic shopping the Precinct and the members of the
bags to make the ‘bricks’. This helps to Thabo Mbeki community to ensure an
reduce the number of plastic bottles ongoing supply of the ‘bricks’.

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