Homes made from Plastic Bottles + Greenhouses, too!




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Eco-Tec's Ecoparque El Zamorano, Honduras.
Ecological House: Constructed with 8,000 bottles with composting toilets and a solar water heating system. The green roof can weigh 30 tons when wet and has been supported by the walls without any extra reinforcement. It is the first house in the world made from PET bottles without using cement in the walls.



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The same home seen from the inside. For design effect some bottles were left slightly exposed. Above the door the tops of the bottles face in, the bottoms face outside -- see second photo above. www.eco-tecnologia.com




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Eco-Tec's Casa de la Fe.
Used vehicle wheel rims make up the foundation and some of the pillars.




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Casa de la Fe (Faith House) Honduran Foundation for the Rehabilitation and Integration of the Handicapped. The texture of the outside surface depends on which way the bottles face. www.eco-tecnologia.com




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Eco Tec's Sky Field House under construction.




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Eco Tec's Sky Field House: The first vaulted ceiling using PET bottles.
All Eco-tec projects have a strong social focus. Most of the PET bottles used are recovered in clean-up campaigns and recycling drives. The community then fills them with sand. They train the unemployed and handicapped in their construction methods. They build water tanks, schools, community centers, urban benches as well as homes. Andreas Froese, Eco-Tec's inventor hopes to also build some PET homes in Haiti utilizing construction debris. Most of the PET bottles used are recovered in clean-up campaigns and recycling drives. www.eco-tecnologia.com




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An Eco-Tec home in Bolivia. PET bottle bottoms on the left.
Wine bottle bottoms on the right.

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This home in Bolivia incorporates lots of wine bottles as well as PET bottles. Here they used concrete pillars instead of PET columns. See more Eco-Tec construction photos at bottom of page.




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Eco-Tec Africa - solving Nigeria's housing shortage. www.ecotec-africa.com & www.physorg.com




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Eco-Tec Africa - solving Nigeria's housing shortage. www.ecotec-africa.com & www.physorg.com

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Taiwan's plastic bottle building -- EcoARK Exhibition Hall.
Not just a bottle picked off the street. Polli-Brick from Hymini is made from recycled PET bottles. The building can be disassembled and then reassembled elsewhere. Looks like that might take a bit of time though as the building is 85 meters long (279 feet).

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Polli's self interlocking plastic bricks are translucent thereby allowing the play of natural light to shine through. The manufacturers add they are good thermal and sound insulators and can withstand hurricane force winds. No BPA, but wish they could make the fireproof backing curtain for walls out of something other than PVC. Can be used for walls, greenhouses, roofs, etc... www.miniwiz.com




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Inside -- optional LED lights fit inside the bottles...Reuter's Photo, www.miniwiz.com





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Ecological Bottle House, near the Iguazu Falls, Misiones, Argentina.
Alfredo Santa Cruz and his family built this house and matching play house out of used plastic bottles, Tetra Packs and CD cases. They used 1200 PET plastic bottles for the walls, 1300 milk and wine Tetra Pack boxes for the roof, 140 CD cases for the doors and windows, plus 320 PET bottles for the furniture. www.sites.google.com

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200 PET bottles hold up the bed.




Photo credit: Xinhua/Martin Zabala
Love the bottle cap curtains!





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The family will instruct anyone who is up for a visit, or if you pay for their travel expenses, they will come to you. www.sites.google.com





Water bottle wall in Danone office, Tokyo.

Great idea as partitions in an office!




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The Morimoto Restaurant's bottle wall in NYC is composed of 17,400 half liter plastic bottles filled with mineral water and then backlit with LED lights.




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The wall is two stories high.

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Back outside...





Plastic bottle greenhouse on Blue Rock Station, Ohio...bluerockstation.com (info below*) This one sits on old tires and is made from 1000 2-liter plastic soft drink bottles. Flickr photo by ticticticticboom





Plastic bottle greenhouses are all the rage in Europe. Picasa-Cudlees.





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Owlsoup Photo on Flickr




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Photo by bryanilona on Flickr





A Danish plastic bottle shed. Flickr photo By christof



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More Eco-Tec Plastic Bottle Construction Photos...



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Eco-Tec in Uganda.





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Sand.



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Cement.




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Adobe.




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Eco-Tec in Bolivia

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Eco-Tec builds many cisterns/water tanks...




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How to make an arch...






A painted wall.





Eco-Tec's aquaduct...

Plastic Bottle House

 

References, Further Info and How To:

• Eco-Tec's website www.eco-tecnologia.com
• Eco-Tec How to booklet: docs.google.com
  Eco-Tec Frequently Asked Questions: www.eco-tec-solutions.com
  Eco-Tec Africa: www.ecotec-africa.com
  See Eco-Tec's proposal to train Haitians to re-build their infrastructure.  www.scribd.com
  
• Hug it Forward Bottle School Wiki: bottleschools.org
  
  *Blue Rock Station in Ohio sells an illustrated booklet on
  How to Build a Plastic Bottle Greenhouse here: bluerockstation.com
  The Warmkes also give alternate building workshops on their farm in Ohio.
  
  Instructions on how to build your own greenhouse.  www.squidoo.com

A Pdf "How to Build a Plastic Bottle Greenhouse" from REAP Scotland:
www.reapscotland.org.uk

See also the Plastic Bottle Schools page for different construction methods...
www.inspirationgreen.com/plastic-bottle-schools







According to Time Magazine, the U.S. produced 28 million tons of plastic waste in 2005-- 27 million tons of which ended up in landfills. www.time.com

Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (www.nevadarecycles.gov)
gives degradation times in a landfill as follows:

Tin can 80-100 years
Aluminum can 200-500 years
Plastic 6-pack rings 450 years
Plastic jug 1 million years!
Styrofoam cup Unknown? Forever?
Glass bottle Unknown? Forever?

Of course, the figures above are not accurate as they will change upon conditions present. We (in our lifetime) will never know how long today's petroleum-based plastic bottles take to break down in the environment.


Did you know, that many new 'eco' polyester pillows are stuffed with shredded plastic bottles? keetsa.com
 
 

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Megan Bayliss
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Love it!
Reply #16 on : Sun February 27, 2011, 14:20:16

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Absolutely amazing: so simple, resourceful, helpful and sustainable. I am encouraged, inspired and grateful. I am posting (and linking back) to my site and will make our march challenge to make a structure from plastic bottles.

Charles Coppin
Posts: 266

Saving the rain forest
Reply #15 on : Tue February 22, 2011, 14:38:15

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Guyana, my South American home is now over run by Brazilian products, and the main culprit is PLASTIC BOTTLES, oh how i would so love to build my plastic empire now. Thanks for the Inspirationgreen guys.

Jorge Arevalo
Posts: 266

asistencia tecnica
Reply #14 on : Sat February 19, 2011, 23:40:05

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Como puedo hacer para obtener asistencia tecnica en linea para desarrollar un proyecto de muro de proteccion perimetral usando su ecotecnologia. Soy de El Salvador, recientemente fui al ministerio de medio ambiente y ellos carecian del conocimiento

lindacooper2
Posts: 266

Eco-buildings
Reply #13 on : Wed February 16, 2011, 17:36:12

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Wow!!!!
I have been looking into greenhouse ideas for my new england home - now I'm thinking I want to expand my thinking in a way bigger way!

SugarZs
Posts: 266

Correction
Reply #12 on : Thu February 03, 2011, 03:45:58

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"Eco-Tec's Ecoparque El Zamorano, Honduras.
It is the first house in the world made from PET bottles without using cement in the walls."
You can easily find the build process of this house on the internet. There is a huge amount of concrete used here. Also stone columns. And even steel beams and columns. Using pet is a good thing, defying gravity is something else.
A civil engineer.

Dave Stanton
Posts: 266

Recycle Reuse
Reply #11 on : Wed January 12, 2011, 04:57:30

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I love it ! This is what we need.

Would square be easier to build from?
If we could heat 'em and compress 'em we could, make them harden square. The great thing is the are thermal double glazed and great for both hot and cold places.

Rose
Posts: 266

all smiles
Reply #10 on : Tue January 11, 2011, 15:15:19

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Absolutely adore this project and will write about you at http://www.finecraftguild.com . It's an excellent article. Inspirational: giving us all a 'CAN DO' mentality.

jacquie coupe
Posts: 266

recycled housing ideas
Reply #9 on : Mon December 13, 2010, 05:22:52

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i love these recycled ideas, they are exactly what i am looking for....i love the creative and fun nature of the form building and think it is the only way to incorporate reusing trash and finding creative solutions to expensive building....so many wonderful ideas....thank you loads and loads!!!

Koteah Vacen
Posts: 266

Wow
Reply #8 on : Sun December 12, 2010, 15:19:15

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I've seen some wonderful things done with plastic bottles; ie: windowfarms.org, but whole buildings is a great idea. I live near a glass house built from embalming fluid bottles and it's pretty amazing too. Now I just have to figure out where to store the bottles until I have enough to build with. Thanks for the great ideas!!

Ambrose Tully
Posts: 266

plastic build
Reply #7 on : Sat December 11, 2010, 21:34:40

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amazing stuff

Leanne Laberge
Posts: 266

eco building
Reply #6 on : Sat December 11, 2010, 19:36:23

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These are some wonderful examples of what a person can do with discards. I raise rabbits and have taken to going to the recycling depot for the multitude of aluminum inter-fitting pipes from all the discarded patio sun covers. I use the metal pieces as frames and braces and construct light and sturdy rabbit cages. The pipes also make great wind chimes when cut to varying lengths and hung.

Adrian Kershaw
Posts: 266

Praise and Ideas...
Reply #5 on : Fri December 10, 2010, 11:28:36

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This is FABULOUS. Congratulations. I can absolutely see myself doing this, have imagined the wine bottle walls would be fun. I am a disabled artist in Oregon. Last spring I started crocheting vhs video tape into sculptures, baskets and vessels more specifically. The mylar is very thermal, I would love to show anyone how I do it. Rugs, curtains, baskets, and I think I am on to getting my weaves strong enough for furniture. Oh, plus, what I am trying to figure out how to build a structure with the left over vhs cases. They are shaped like flat bricks. Also, all the parts that come from inside the tape will be used in my art work. I'm here in my homeland, usa... does anyone want to adopt an eco artist??? Take me somewhere the public is not so spoiled and wasteful. [email protected]

gail mckinney
Posts: 266

plastic bottle houses etc
Reply #4 on : Fri December 10, 2010, 10:00:18

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LOVE this.....I would be gratefull for 1 of these houses.Amazing what a bit of effort and a great creativity can do.

karen
Posts: 266

plastic bnottle construction
Reply #3 on : Thu December 09, 2010, 21:30:21

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inspiring...greenhouse time.

christophe genty
Posts: 266

bottle houses
Reply #2 on : Sun December 05, 2010, 03:29:06

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Wonderful, howesome, marvelous..... not enough vocabulary for me to say how is the idea. Please continie and show us, the occidental "polluter", a good way to use the things we use to throw away.

Thanks again

buga
Posts: 266

GREAT!
Reply #1 on : Tue November 30, 2010, 11:59:57

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WOW amazing!... i now know what i'm going to use in a greenhouse i'll do...

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