Plastic Bottle Village
The plastic bottle village is an eco-friendly
initiative to tackle the menace of plastic. An average person living in a city
uses hundreds of thousands of plastic bottles in his lifetime. This creates a
huge burden on landfills. Besides, plastic takes hundreds of years to break
down into tiny pieces, and will never really completely disappear.
To address this issue, Canadian entrepreneur Robert
Bezeau came up with a unique solution.
He decided to live inside what he had consumed and
discarded. In other words, he used recycled plastic bottles to build stylish
and sturdy homes!
An entire such eco-friendly village comprising over
120 homes has been built amid woods on the island of Bocas Del Toro in Panama.
Each home consists of a steel frame framework packed with thousands of recycled
plastic bottles act as insulators; such houses are naturally cool inside, thus
removing the need for air-conditioners. Not only are the plastic bottle houses
cheaper to build, they also require less time for construction and are
earthquake resistant.
