For more information: www.samarpanfoundation.org CONSTRUCTION WITH BOTTLES Do you remember the last time you bought a drink in a plastic bottle? Chances are that you threw away the bottle, without a second thought, when you were done. That's what most of us do. Plastic is one of the most disposable materials in the modern world. It makes up much of the street side litter in urban and rural areas. It is rapidly filling up landfills as well as choking water bodies. Plastic bottles make up approximately 11% of the content of landfills, causing serious environmental consequences. Samarpan Foundation has chosen to transform and repurpose this overlooked and environmentally harmful plastic bottle into one that is a useful resource. They have constructed a functional living space in New Delhi, using hundreds of used PET bottles instead of conventional bricks. Discarded PET (Polyethelene Terephthalate) bottles were collected, manually sorted by size, compactly filled with mud and sealed. Then these bottle bricks were cemented together to construct the floor, walls and roof of the dwelling. A mud filled bottle is as strong as a brick and has many other advantages. It forms a valuable alternate building material. Low cost and maintenance, along with its long life, make it excellent value for money. PET provides very good alcohol and oil barrier properties and generally good chemical resistance. The orienting process of PET serves to improve its gas and moisture barrier properties ...
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Awesome! Thanks a mil for the sharing and inspiration.
nice job well done
Have to echo frankt04…That classroom will turn out hundreds of doctors, and in the USA we turn out McDonald workers and meth heads at a cost of 15-27k a year.
Remember this video the next time a politician says our pathetically expensive education system, that churns out illiteracy everyday, just needs a few more BILLION dollars!
@9tee You are such a pathetic honk of shit. How about you get your fat ass off the computer screen and go do it yourself. You sound like you know what youre doing. So idiotic. OK?
That classroom will turn out hundreds of doctors, and in the USA we turn out McDonald workers and meth heads at a cost of 15-27k a year.
USELESS .. time would have been better spent making Mud Bricks. What white guy talk these people into doing this?
wow !!!i jus stumbled on this can this be possible….interesting well done
What a creative way to keep this product out of the landfill! This may even provide all the insulation they need. Kudos!
THAT was inCREDIBLE!
Amazing!!!!!! The whole world would benefit from this video
Bottles could’ve been insulation… what a wasted opportunity. Also… always surprises me how little ‘over-hang’ the roof has… Especially there in India… it is as if: the monsoon will not happen again after sooo many thousands of years… it is now stopped. For the love of God ! give a few more inches… the “I” beam will thank you later on. People standing there @ the door during rain fall. put rcc beams @ the corners … walls not ‘load bearing’ bottles empty OK
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@barcenasfrank Do you always think NEGATIVE? This is a brilliant idea/concept of people using what they can readily get their hands on to achieve something worthwhile and needed! (There is in fact a Pub in NZ that was built over 50 years ago mainly using beer bottles! (I think the contents were used first to prevent waste!)
very clever,nice video
awsome!
hoped u’d use bottles for insulation but it wasn’t the case. too bad.
awesome idea and some many bottles can be obtained so easily around here. cool.
You wouldn’t be drilling holes through bottles… you would simply feed pipe and/or wiring through the spaces between bottle necks, prior to finishing the interior.
Brilliant, actually. Congratulations
This is wonder, however applied to a home where pipes and access hole need to be drilled you will get sand leaking out and eventually weaken that area.
Wow, Wow, Wow, GREAT. Love, Peace, and Divine Bliss Hossi