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I worked with an organization called Long Way Home in San Juan de Comlapa, Guatemala who made non-load bearing walls using plastic bottles jammed full (and I mean full!) of trash, combined with chicken wire and natural plaster (cob). They built a school this way.
For load-bearing walls they use packed-earth tires, and for decoration they used glass bottles (eliminating those from the landfill).
The cleverest thing they did was first build a nice soccer field, the nicest in town. And for the kids to play on it, they had to bring a bottle filled with trash. The idea was to give local alternatives to throwing trash down a beautiful ravine in the town.
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I worked with an organization called Long Way Home in San Juan de Comlapa, Guatemala who made non-load bearing walls using plastic bottles jammed full (and I mean full!) of trash, combined with chicken wire and natural plaster (cob). They built a school this way.
For load-bearing walls they use packed-earth tires, and for decoration they used glass bottles (eliminating those from the landfill).
The cleverest thing they did was first build a nice soccer field, the nicest in town. And for the kids to play on it, they had to bring a bottle filled with trash. The idea was to give local alternatives to throwing trash down a beautiful ravine in the town.