I am a retired 61 year ol' hippie chick and planning my escape to monetary freedom hopefully within a few months. I plan on using a combination of ecological building ideas. Some strawbale and/or sandbag for beginning of the base and then your plastic bottle fill for building up. I have been pondering how to secure a liquid fill to allow light via the green plastic bottle other than staggering empty ones every so often. I also am planning on learning how to thatch a roof and tin can a roof!
I am going to show this to the poor in my country and teach them how to build it, so that they can have a place to live and be protected in the winter! Absolutely awasome and ecologically friendly! The world is taking the garbage and creating pure genious buildings! Just great to help people in need! May God bless you and continue to do good for others!
It would probably be a better idea to compress plastic bottles into bales and build with the bales. You'd end up with more stable walls that could even be load bearing.
Andreas, Given that it is the cement that is put around the bottles that gives strength to the wall, the bottles help minimize the mass of the wall and reduce the amount of cement consumed to build the wall. So my question is: why fill the bottles as all? With a cap on, once the cement has set, none of the bottles will collapse, and the air space will contribute to insulation.
I am not using cement for binding normally soil ore laim with soil more that 60 project in 14 years without problem . I am filling the bottle with soil so there is no problem with bullets
SER PARTE DE LA SOLUCION EN MEXICO , AHORA ME EMOCIONA MAS!!! GRACIAS ANDREAS, POR COMPARTIR CON JAHDIEL, AC, TU TECNICA, CONTAR CON LAS CONSTRUCCIONES QUE TENEMOS, ES PENSAR QUE CUALQUIER META QUE TE PROPONGAS LA PUEDES LOGRAR,,, "FALTA MUCHO POR HACER,,, SIGO PENSANDO VERDE!!!!!
Thumbs up to EcoTecnologia! Great way to recycle PET bottles. In third world countries PET generally ends up as garbage in our environment. We wish that local Governments start taking awareness and allow such environmental friendly construction alternatives. We did obtain a building permit in Panama for some Earthbag Structures (Domes) but it was obtained only after design modifications. We will consider finishing some interior walls with this PET technique.
Amazing! I'm from Honduras and I've never seen or heard about any of the projects in here! The water tank in Mexico... Loved the idea! This was inspiring for me. Thank you!
I been thermoforming for 30plus years and see the need for more options like this, have to realice there is only so much oil left ,bioplastics are still waya away, great idea
It’s almost inconceivable the amount of plastic bottles produced each year and the amount you’re using to make these structures is just a minute fraction of those thrown away. Egad!
It is easy to say "just stop making them", but the reality is that it will be many, many years before that happens. Until that time comes, I think this is a great solution to two problems; cheap affordable building material and using something that would otherwise wind up in a landfill or in the ocean.
Good suggestion! There is an excellent free description manual on this available at your website. We are experimenting with Hyperbolic Paraboloid Latex/Cement for Roof structures. This allows us "Roof first then Walls". Good in a rainy climate like ours (Panama). We also plan to apply first for a water tank structure getting all the Engineering Data on this which then we plan on using for such House Roof permit. Same could apply for your type of structures.
Wonderful idea. This solves many problems, what a wonderful thing you have done. Everyone deserves a home, and we all should find ways to help, even if we can't be there to assist in building. Is there a way to make bottle collections and get them to your workshops/classes or to communities that are utilizing this building system?
FYI - I live in the U.S., I have a real paying job, and real money and I still can't afford to live in a house. I live in a bus in the country with not modern convenience that means, no electric, gas or running water. I would love to live in a house like they are building, or even in a tire house. I think all this is a GREAT idea and I hope I can build one myself.
These projects are good ideas, and could help many in countries where they need better homes, eg, in slum area`s . it would be good to go to these places and show the people there what can be done and hopefully they can learn others once you have gone.
hola soy de Argentina y los felicito por lo que hacen es maravilloso..yo sueño con tener las habitaciones y el baño de mi casita y ver el video esto me dio muchas ideas muchas gracias...
man! that is amazing! we see these bottles litter everywhere, never would have thought you coud fill them with dirt and use them for construction! makes sense though! i bet they have amazing insulation properties! well done bro!
These buildings will probably outlast our wooden homes. And, I believe, there are far more non-recyclable materials used in our traditional buildings that will have to be dealt with at some point down the road.
Great solution and nice to see. I hate to throw water on your water bottle project though. No doubt there are enough bottles to build many structures and we need to get rid of the trash, but u might be surprised it will be limited. Its just like making diesel from used restaurant cooking oil. Once everyone tries it there won't be nearly enough to go around. How much is it going to cost to ship all of those bottles to Colombia anyway? Surely, people in these places don't buy their water in plastic bottles! Here many of them are scratching through garbage and they buy water in bottles? This is insane.
Answer: No. Some plastics do leach contaminants into water, plastic bottles are contaminant-free as are food-grade plastic buckets. I'm not a scientist, but I've looked into this as carefully as any layman can do. These bottles are as safe as they can be, according to contemporary science.
I wonder if people who don't recycle would do so if they knew they could provide a home for a child? Might be worth doing a "feed the children" type commercial in each area of the project to see if people might bring their bottles right to the site! I was a volunteer coordinator and many of our volunteers were folks who saw what we were doing as they dropped off donations. Just a thought.
No, I am not broke; I have a college degree and am still continuing my education. I work 2 jobs. I live in the real world where people struggle and feel like they have accomplished something at the end of the day. I don't take things for granted like most do. What most consider a necessity to me are luxuries. Funny thing is most people think that America does not have the poverty of other countries, but it does, and if you open your eyes and ears you will see and hear it.
Possibly a good idea in some parts of the world where waste is dumped in nature. In Denmark, where I live, you pay a deposit on all bottles (and cans) and they are returned for recycling. I would think that this is better for the environment than building houses out of plastic bottles. Thanks anyway for an interesting video.
You could look at it like that on one hand, on the other, dealing with them can be done in a variety of ways. If the material can be reused, it certainly should. It's meeting a much better purpose in being melted down and reformed into something else, or being turned into building blocks, than it is being left in a hole or out in the ocean.
I really like the aesthetics of many of these 'earth/bottle' structures. The aqueduct, for instance. :-) In some parts of the world, the bottles could be filled with a compacted mix of rice hulls and a bit of clayey adobe soil to provide a measure of insulation, where needed. A time consuming task by North American standards, but useful employment where employment is scarce.
I commend your ability to talk people into filling plastic bottles with dirt through the 2cm tiny hole formally used to pour out liquid then stacking them into a wall. I've packed tires with dirt for wall building once in the distant past and that was labor intensive enough! My question is, what do you do about the ozone affect on plastic? Seems like earthbags would be a whole lot simpler to build with.
Besides bottle homes are a great way to recycle the waste that will not decompose in our lifetime, and the homes look great. You really can’t tell what they are made of. If more people would stop and consider the way our world and resources are being depleted I’m sure we could discover more ways to recycle our trash.
kind of neat. but if you have enough people to fill all those bottles you have enough people to make either adobe bricks or gather stone to make the structures. better to recycle the bottles than use them to build with.
The problem is not the soil the problem is after drinking a plastik bouttle goes to the ocean. by the way how many houses has you build for the people??
Andreas Froese you recycle the plastic. The shifting of the soil and natural temp changes will cause the bottle to become brittle and break spilling out the sand. Got an engineering background.
Many supposedly recycled bottles are actually not recycled. Using them for bricks is a very local solution. Sand is local, bottles are local, the only thing trucked in would be concrete. Using bottles reduces the amount of concrete you would otherwise need (such as to make cinder blocks).
I saw some of these homes: are not more economical than the traditional model blocks, because the sand is not cheap and the manpower to fill the bottles make it impossible! cement and sand is very Gatsa and saves blocks which are the cheapest of the work! Philosophically, yes they are very interesting ! I'm sorry to disappoint!
It looks like a good idea for people who aren't working in the fields, tending livestock or doing anything else important but I tried it and gave up after 200 bottles because it takes so long to sift out rocks from the soil, fill the bottle with sand and then tamp it down and fill in the space that's left. Plus, as one poster commented, you either have to use precious top soil or dig a giant hole in the ground to get enough poor soil. So then you have to find a use for that big hole in the ground.
Si viviera en una de esas casas me sentiría siempre en un embotellamiento!. No es broma, está muy bien. Además deben ser muy aislantes (no pasa el calor) como el adobe!. Saludos.
i Andreas I live in Jamaica I own a 2 quarters of an acre land and also a six acre peace as well i think this type of technology would work really well done here would love to learn how its done.
Mud plaster perhaps? hempcreate? Adobe? Cob? -Ferro-Cement is a modern material using binders that are extremely energy intense and as such, not "green" at all, it also requires industralized scale and long transports. Even burning lime is far less energy intense, and old style lime cement is still way strong enough for housing uses.
This is what you're saying, "I'm broke, I don't earn enough to live in a house or rent an apartment, so I'm going to take the small amount of spare time & money I have & instead of taking classes to make myself more valuable in the job market I'm going to build a hut that I won't be able to sell when I'm done living in it." That's the kind of "investment" that keeps poor people poor.
This one is perfect for Pakistan as brick prices here are touching the roof! hence we need to start collecting empty bottles and start replacing bricks!
Well I for one think and it is only my own opinion that this is a great idea that would and should work anywhere in the world.Even cheap housing would be preferable to being homeless and having to brave the elements. If clay roofing tiles could be made cheaply as well for roofing then you could really have something that looks really nice "not that what I have seen doesn't look nice already" but clay tiles being heavy stands up to high winds better.It looks like you did a really fine job with the school house.Just remember not to let others comments get you down when you know your doing something right to help someone else.
I'm curious.. All of the bottles used in these projects have caps, but most of what you will find in waste are bottles without caps. So where do all those extra caps come from?
Bullet proof my friend , and better islacion, and belive mi after more than 13 years experiences with this is not the same if you let the bottle empty.
amazing! But what if you have to break down the building. You know, most buildings won't survive eternity. Have you thought about how to remove or reuse the bottles after breaking down the buildings?
Desde Venezuela Que hermosa labor pero que garantia tiene contra temblores y como las botellas tienen que estar, cerradas o llenas de tierra para trabajarlas haciendo casas gracias.
The structures are built from cement NOT bottles. The bottles are filled with cement! Or sand... either way. This is just a way of getting rid of the bottles.
i love the idea i wonder what would be the plastic bottle effect under sun for long term? and if it has any side effect to the people who live in those plastic house
I missed this when you posted it, but this is what I was hinting at in my OP. The delusion some people have with regards to recycling. "plastic in a landfill is BAAAAD! It pollutes! But, plastic as a building material is A OK though!" Please point out to me how exactly plastic bottles buried under dirt in a land fill are chemically different from plastic bottles buried under dirt in a "wall".
Ich habe größten Respekt für diese Meisterleistung...ihr seid alle zusammen Helden dieser neuen Zeit,,einfach nur spitze was man so alles aus Plastikflaschen machen kann.
I don't see how this is better than earthbags. If anything, they should just more heavily encourage recycling, and make efforts to clean up recyclables that have been dumped. Earthbags are much faster to fill, and it's the same thing: Well contained dirt.
My dream in life is to build a house like this for myself or for whomever needs a place to stay...if you can...try to make a step-by-step on how to build something like this!!
Watching this I think it is a great idea but I was also pondering the chemicals in the plastic. Bisphenol A being one of them. Would/could this effect living situations if chemicals become air bound in different temperatures? If the plastic is safe, or naturally treated then I am on board with this as it would put all of the useless plastic created in the first place to good use.
I think the different between earth ship and ECOTEC is that we train community’s and normal people in our knowledge. Building with PET bottle using our special binding system and les ore no cement . But not only houses also water tanks.
This is great for countries where they don't have laws regarding recycling and have all these things laying aroung and up for grabs. In my country there are strict laws for recycling pretty much everything (tires, plastics, glass, paper...), so it is actually less costly and time consuming to use conventional concrete building than trying to get hold of enough materials for your build, funny aint it? By the way I don't understand how using Plastic bottles is considered "green eco friendly", plastic breaks down in any form and cause pollution even when burried underground, I would preffer to see all these bottles going for recycling.
This is a solution for the current pollution problem ,at least the bottles don't end up in the rivers or forests ...at least for the next 50 years or so ,till someone invents some kind of particle/matter rearranger to turn this kind of waste into something else. Or gets used for some kind of clean fusion.
I first saw the Plastic bottles used by Mike Reynolds (Earthship Biotecture) at Andaman islands, after the tsunami 2004. There he built home and water tank using the plastic bottles; which the local children were paid to collect.
I second that, I really shrugged back at the claims in the beginning of this video. How can someone doing this know so little about the technique that they would state such a lie to promote their work? It does not breed any confidence in the author what so ever, not for me who rese3arch green building anyway.. Nice houses though, so kudos to that!
I love how its save the world from plastic wasted. I am on prosess to collect those plastic to make my home ecobrick come true. Does it strong enough for 2 floor building house?
earthship and mike reynolds have been building with cans bottles tins , aluminium can and old car tyres for over 30 years , though this is a good start
Nice idea, but I am sure just like all the other countries mentioned in the video "Kajunga Afrika" Kajunga must be in a Certain country as Afrika is not a country i.e. "Cali, Colombia" and not Cali South America. Love the idea of recycling.
I Love this idea. when I first heard about it I didn`t realise how big this is but then I started to do some researches and this is just amasing I hope you keep it up *Thums up*
I am a retired 61 year ol' hippie chick and planning my escape to monetary freedom hopefully within a few months. I plan on using a combination of ecological building ideas. Some strawbale and/or sandbag for beginning of the base and then your plastic bottle fill for building up. I have been pondering how to secure a liquid fill to allow light via the green plastic bottle other than staggering empty ones every so often. I also am planning on learning how to thatch a roof and tin can a roof!
How did it go with liquid inside? The risk of bursting under the pressure could be to high, right?
I am going to show this to the poor in my country and teach them how to build it, so that they can have a place to live and be protected in the winter! Absolutely awasome and ecologically friendly! The world is taking the garbage and creating pure genious buildings! Just great to help people in need! May God bless you and continue to do good for others!
Praise God this is an answer to stopping of polluting the earth with plastic bottles.Very good idea.D.T.
It would probably be a better idea to compress plastic bottles into bales and build with the bales. You'd end up with more stable walls that could even be load bearing.
Plastics tend to burn with nasty gass outputs. Using blocks of nothing but plastic is not the safeist idea to come down the pike.
Andreas, Given that it is the cement that is put around the bottles that gives strength to the wall, the bottles help minimize the mass of the wall and reduce the amount of cement consumed to build the wall.
So my question is: why fill the bottles as all? With a cap on, once the cement has set, none of the bottles will collapse, and the air space will contribute to insulation.
I am not using cement for binding normally soil ore laim with soil
more that 60 project in 14 years without problem .
I am filling the bottle with soil so there is no problem with bullets
+Andreas Froese i built a small round shed with aluminum cans , could that work there as well ?
@@EcoTecnologiadie Frage war doch, ob es nicht auch ohne Füllung ginge? Oder ist der Druck auf die Flaschen dann zu stark?
This seems like a cord wood construction technique but using bottles instead of cord wood....good job....
SER PARTE DE LA SOLUCION EN MEXICO , AHORA ME EMOCIONA MAS!!! GRACIAS ANDREAS, POR COMPARTIR CON JAHDIEL, AC, TU TECNICA, CONTAR CON LAS CONSTRUCCIONES QUE TENEMOS, ES PENSAR QUE CUALQUIER META QUE TE PROPONGAS LA PUEDES LOGRAR,,,
"FALTA MUCHO POR HACER,,, SIGO PENSANDO VERDE!!!!!
Good one relatives,we would like to share with our relations in Kenya, blessings from uncle goodKnife
Thumbs up to EcoTecnologia! Great way to recycle PET bottles. In third world countries PET generally ends up as garbage in our environment. We wish that local Governments start taking awareness and allow such environmental friendly construction alternatives.
We did obtain a building permit in Panama for some Earthbag Structures (Domes) but it was obtained only after design modifications.
We will consider finishing some interior walls with this PET technique.
Amazing! I'm from Honduras and I've never seen or heard about any of the projects in here! The water tank in Mexico... Loved the idea! This was inspiring for me. Thank you!
That is a brilliant idea, and I think a hexagonal prism would be the perfect shape for the new bottles!
I been thermoforming for 30plus years and see the need for more options like this, have to realice there is only so much oil left ,bioplastics are still waya away, great idea
It’s almost inconceivable the amount of plastic bottles produced each year and the amount you’re using to make these structures is just a minute fraction of those thrown away. Egad!
It is easy to say "just stop making them", but the reality is that it will be many, many years before that happens. Until that time comes, I think this is a great solution to two problems; cheap affordable building material and using something that would otherwise wind up in a landfill or in the ocean.
it's sad that the country that produces the most of these bottles, is also the country that would have rules that we couldn't build
Wow, My best friend, It's so beautiful video !!! enjoyed watching your video
Good suggestion! There is an excellent free description manual on this available at your website. We are experimenting with Hyperbolic Paraboloid Latex/Cement for Roof structures. This allows us "Roof first then Walls". Good in a rainy climate like ours (Panama). We also plan to apply first for a water tank structure getting all the Engineering Data on this which then we plan on using for such House Roof permit. Same could apply for your type of structures.
Its nice to see REAL Environmentalists.
Wonderful idea. This solves many problems, what a wonderful thing you have done. Everyone deserves a home, and we all should find ways to help, even if we can't be there to assist in building. Is there a way to make bottle collections and get them to your workshops/classes or to communities that are utilizing this building system?
Excelenta Idee ! Bravo ! Felicitari dumneavoastra !
FYI - I live in the U.S., I have a real paying job, and real money and I still can't afford to live in a house. I live in a bus in the country with not modern convenience that means, no electric, gas or running water. I would love to live in a house like they are building, or even in a tire house. I think all this is a GREAT idea and I hope I can build one myself.
Super Great..wonderful and Beautiful...
There is going to be a small foot bridge built to span the creek that runs at the foot of a hill,
using this method. I can't wait to get started!
Wow great idea I love it...
These projects are good ideas, and could help many in countries where they need better homes, eg, in slum area`s . it would be good to go to these places and show the people there what can be done and hopefully they can learn others once you have gone.
hola soy de Argentina y los felicito por lo que hacen es maravilloso..yo sueño con tener las habitaciones y el baño de mi casita y ver el video esto me dio muchas ideas muchas gracias...
This is amazing keep it going. hopefully 3rd world countries can start to have better conditions with all the new ideas coming up to help them
Wonderful.
Projects and people like you give hope to our world.
in peace
Per Norrgren
Muchas Gracias!!
man! that is amazing! we see these bottles litter everywhere, never would have thought you coud fill them with dirt and use them for construction! makes sense though! i bet they have amazing insulation properties! well done bro!
These buildings will probably outlast our wooden homes. And, I believe, there are far more non-recyclable materials used in our traditional buildings that will have to be dealt with at some point down the road.
Great solution and nice to see. I hate to throw water on your water bottle project though. No doubt there are enough bottles to build many structures and we need to get rid of the trash, but u might be surprised it will be limited. Its just like making diesel from used restaurant cooking oil. Once everyone tries it there won't be nearly enough to go around. How much is it going to cost to ship all of those bottles to Colombia anyway? Surely, people in these places don't buy their water in plastic bottles! Here many of them are scratching through garbage and they buy water in bottles? This is insane.
discountbrains Same thing in USA
Answer: No. Some plastics do leach contaminants into water, plastic bottles are contaminant-free as are food-grade plastic buckets. I'm not a scientist, but I've looked into this as carefully as any layman can do. These bottles are as safe as they can be, according to contemporary science.
Love the floral effect. Exciting structures.
I wonder if people who don't recycle would do so if they knew they could provide a home for a child?
Might be worth doing a "feed the children" type commercial in each area of the project to see if people might bring their bottles right to the site! I was a volunteer coordinator and many of our volunteers were folks who saw what we were doing as they dropped off donations. Just a thought.
this is so awesome good on you guys
You guys are great! Fantastic !!!!!!, god bless & thanks.
WOW !!! This absolutely awesome. I
+Gingersweets1 hope you and all of us make it :)
:)
No, I am not broke; I have a college degree and am still continuing my education. I work 2 jobs. I live in the real world where people struggle and feel like they have accomplished something at the end of the day. I don't take things for granted like most do. What most consider a necessity to me are luxuries. Funny thing is most people think that America does not have the poverty of other countries, but it does, and if you open your eyes and ears you will see and hear it.
Possibly a good idea in some parts of the world where waste is dumped in nature. In Denmark, where I live, you pay a deposit on all bottles (and cans) and they are returned for recycling. I would think that this is better for the environment than building houses out of plastic bottles. Thanks anyway for an interesting video.
You could look at it like that on one hand, on the other, dealing with them can be done in a variety of ways. If the material can be reused, it certainly should. It's meeting a much better purpose in being melted down and reformed into something else, or being turned into building blocks, than it is being left in a hole or out in the ocean.
I really like the aesthetics of many of these 'earth/bottle' structures. The aqueduct, for instance. :-)
In some parts of the world, the bottles could be filled with a compacted mix of rice hulls and a bit of clayey adobe soil to provide a measure of insulation, where needed. A time consuming task by North American standards, but useful employment where employment is scarce.
I commend your ability to talk people into filling plastic bottles with dirt through the 2cm tiny hole formally used to pour out liquid then stacking them into a wall. I've packed tires with dirt for wall building once in the distant past and that was labor intensive enough! My question is, what do you do about the ozone affect on plastic? Seems like earthbags would be a whole lot simpler to build with.
Amazing use of recycled materials
Love this!!! Goes right with my motto:
"INNOVATION NOT LEGISLATION"
google: voluntaryism (note the spelling)
Very very cool idea
Besides bottle homes are a great way to recycle the waste that will not decompose in our lifetime, and the homes look great. You really can’t tell what they are made of. If more people would stop and consider the way our world and resources are being depleted I’m sure we could discover more ways to recycle our trash.
Marvelous idea.
kind of neat. but if you have enough people to fill all those bottles you have enough people to make either adobe bricks or gather stone to make the structures. better to recycle the bottles than use them to build with.
The problem is not the soil the problem is after drinking a plastik bouttle goes to the ocean. by the way how many houses has you build for the people??
Andreas Froese you recycle the plastic. The shifting of the soil and natural temp changes will cause the bottle to become brittle and break spilling out the sand. Got an engineering background.
Many supposedly recycled bottles are actually not recycled. Using them for bricks is a very local solution. Sand is local, bottles are local, the only thing trucked in would be concrete. Using bottles reduces the amount of concrete you would otherwise need (such as to make cinder blocks).
I saw some of these homes: are not more economical than the traditional model blocks, because the sand is not cheap and the manpower to fill the bottles make it impossible! cement and sand is very Gatsa and saves blocks which are the cheapest of the work! Philosophically, yes they are very interesting ! I'm sorry to disappoint!
It looks like a good idea for people who aren't working in the fields, tending livestock or doing anything else important but I tried it and gave up after 200 bottles because it takes so long to sift out rocks from the soil, fill the bottle with sand and then tamp it down and fill in the space that's left. Plus, as one poster commented, you either have to use precious top soil or dig a giant hole in the ground to get enough poor soil. So then you have to find a use for that big hole in the ground.
Si viviera en una de esas casas me sentiría siempre en un embotellamiento!. No es broma, está muy bien. Además deben ser muy aislantes (no pasa el calor) como el adobe!. Saludos.
no hay palabras para homenajear este trabajo en mexico hay pobreza pork no vemos mas aya de nuestras narices.
Congrats Andrea for the beautiful work and engagement for the world.
Biiiiig LIKE! Bravo! Congratulation. The plastic bottles can be used as thermal insulation?
i Andreas I live in Jamaica I own a 2 quarters of an acre land and also a six acre peace as well i think this type of technology would work really well done here would love to learn how its done.
I agree with you. I distill my own water and have glass drinking bottles in my home.
Mud plaster perhaps? hempcreate? Adobe? Cob?
-Ferro-Cement is a modern material using binders that are extremely energy intense and as such, not "green" at all, it also requires industralized scale and long transports.
Even burning lime is far less energy intense, and old style lime cement is still way strong enough for housing uses.
So awesome!!!!!!!
This is what you're saying, "I'm broke, I don't earn enough to live in a house or rent an apartment, so I'm going to take the small amount of spare time & money I have & instead of taking classes to make myself more valuable in the job market I'm going to build a hut that I won't be able to sell when I'm done living in it." That's the kind of "investment" that keeps poor people poor.
This one is perfect for Pakistan as brick prices here are touching the roof! hence we need to start collecting empty bottles and start replacing bricks!
Well I for one think and it is only my own opinion that this is a great idea that would and should work anywhere in the world.Even cheap housing would be preferable to being homeless and having to brave the elements. If clay roofing tiles could be made cheaply as well for roofing then you could really have something that looks really nice "not that what I have seen doesn't look nice already" but clay tiles being heavy stands up to high winds better.It looks like you did a really fine job with the school house.Just remember not to let others comments get you down when you know your doing something right to help someone else.
I'm curious.. All of the bottles used in these projects have caps, but most of what you will find in waste are bottles without caps. So where do all those extra caps come from?
Bullet proof my friend , and better islacion, and belive mi after more than 13 years experiences with this is not the same if you let the bottle empty.
Awesome Sr. Froese !!, I'm going try to build with bottles in Mexico !!!! (=
Solo Awesome, one day I would like to be able to Do the same!!! Great job people! :)
amazing! But what if you have to break down the building. You know, most buildings won't survive eternity. Have you thought about how to remove or reuse the bottles after breaking down the buildings?
Desde Venezuela Que hermosa labor pero que garantia tiene contra temblores y como las botellas tienen que estar, cerradas o llenas de tierra para trabajarlas haciendo casas gracias.
The structures are built from cement NOT bottles. The bottles are filled with cement! Or sand... either way. This is just a way of getting rid of the bottles.
Would be Nice kerry
Love to learn this technique. Brilliant.
Inspirational......
i love the idea i wonder what would be the plastic bottle effect under sun for long term? and if it has any side effect to the people who live in those plastic house
I missed this when you posted it, but this is what I was hinting at in my OP. The delusion some people have with regards to recycling. "plastic in a landfill is BAAAAD! It pollutes! But, plastic as a building material is A OK though!" Please point out to me how exactly plastic bottles buried under dirt in a land fill are chemically different from plastic bottles buried under dirt in a "wall".
Ich habe größten Respekt für diese Meisterleistung...ihr seid alle zusammen Helden dieser neuen Zeit,,einfach nur spitze was man so alles aus Plastikflaschen machen kann.
this is correct!!and you can start to build the next day just separate soil and bottle and string.
This is AMAZING! I am facinated by this!
Fill them with Great Stuff expanding foam first then pot the cap on this makes a stronger composit that insulates too.
formidable formidable 👍👍👍👍👍
I don't see how this is better than earthbags. If anything, they should just more heavily encourage recycling, and make efforts to clean up recyclables that have been dumped. Earthbags are much faster to fill, and it's the same thing: Well contained dirt.
My dream in life is to build a house like this for myself or for whomever needs a place to stay...if you can...try to make a step-by-step on how to build something like this!!
Hi, I like the idea, I would like to know which stick the bottles, thanks for sharing ..
Watching this I think it is a great idea but I was also pondering the chemicals in the plastic. Bisphenol A being one of them. Would/could this effect living situations if chemicals become air bound in different temperatures?
If the plastic is safe, or naturally treated then I am on board with this as it would put all of the useless plastic created in the first place to good use.
very nice
I think the different between earth ship and ECOTEC is that we train community’s and normal people in our knowledge. Building with PET bottle using our special binding system and les ore no cement .
But not only houses also water tanks.
This is great for countries where they don't have laws regarding recycling and have all these things laying aroung and up for grabs. In my country there are strict laws for recycling pretty much everything (tires, plastics, glass, paper...), so it is actually less costly and time consuming to use conventional concrete building than trying to get hold of enough materials for your build, funny aint it?
By the way I don't understand how using Plastic bottles is considered "green eco friendly", plastic breaks down in any form and cause pollution even when burried underground, I would preffer to see all these bottles going for recycling.
Wow. This is amazing. 🙌🙌🙌
This is a solution for the current pollution problem ,at least the bottles don't end up in the rivers or forests ...at least for the next 50 years or so ,till someone invents some kind of particle/matter rearranger to turn this kind of waste into something else. Or gets used for some kind of clean fusion.
So awesome.
Great idea
I first saw the Plastic bottles used by Mike Reynolds (Earthship Biotecture) at Andaman islands, after the tsunami 2004. There he built home and water tank using the plastic bottles; which the local children were paid to collect.
hey am a kenya..i like ur job
Single-story, curved-wall structures are inherently pretty stable.
I second that, I really shrugged back at the claims in the beginning of this video. How can someone doing this know so little about the technique that they would state such a lie to promote their work? It does not breed any confidence in the author what so ever, not for me who rese3arch green building anyway.. Nice houses though, so kudos to that!
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You are right but first after 300-500 jears and second we put our briks in walls and cover it with paint ore palster.
Brilliance covered in awesome sauce
The solution is very very simple. Severely reduce the popultion
I love how its save the world from plastic wasted. I am on prosess to collect those plastic to make my home ecobrick come true. Does it strong enough for 2 floor building house?
earthship and mike reynolds have been building with cans bottles tins , aluminium can and old car tyres for over 30 years , though this is a good start
Nice idea, but I am sure just like all the other countries mentioned in the video "Kajunga Afrika" Kajunga must be in a Certain country as Afrika is not a country i.e. "Cali, Colombia" and not Cali South America.
Love the idea of recycling.
I Love this idea.
when I first heard about it I didn`t realise how big this is but then I started to do some researches and this is just amasing I hope you keep it up *Thums up*