10-04-2017, 08:32 PM
How to Construct Houses with Plastic Bottles !!
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Waste bottles for construction? Yes, it is difficult to think of a bottle as a brick. But a mud-filled bottle is as strong as a brick and whatever you can do with a brick, you can
do with a bottle too..Plus it has got lots of advantages too..
Bottles,bottles everywhere!
The video shows the strength of a mud filled plastic bottle.
When you make a clay brick, the time and the energy used right from mixing the clay to baking it in the kiln and taking into account the firewood used for that, you will see
that the bottle brick is far more energy-efficient.
The technology also reduces the carbon emission that happens during the baking of an ordinary brick . The heat generation from cement factories can also be reduced
as this technology uses only five percent cement. The foundation for the entire construction is obtained from building waste and so the mountains from which granite is
blasted out can be saved too..
PET Bottle can last as long as 300 years (undoubtedly longer than the cement used to bind the bottles together in the walls!).
The following picture is of an ecological house constructed in Honduras using some 8,000 PET bottles, in the process freeing up an estimated 12 cubic meters (m3) in the
local landfill.
The house also features a living roof (sometimes called a green roof) of sod and turf. Such roofs not only have aesthetic appeal, but tend to insulate the house better than
conventional roofs, lowering heating and cooling costs. They are also cheaper than conventional roofs.
When wet, the 102 square meter (m2), living roof of the casa ecol?can weigh as much as 30 metric tons (Mt, toneladas).