Kaduna-based NGO Development Association for Renewable Energies (DARE), with the aid of London-based NGO Africa Community Trust, have started a project that will help with the housing of homeless people in Nigeria. The housing project is unique as the houses will be built using mud filled, plastic bottles.
The project came about as a way to eliminate homelessness among the poor, as the numbers keep going up. The use of plastic bottles filled with mud is not only cost effective (as plastic bottles are cheap and found everywhere); but its also environmentally friendly. Plastic bottles that aren’t reused and are improperly discarded often end up in landfills or at the bottom of the ocean, and in the stomachs of a variety of animal species that mistake them for food.
According to a report 14,000 bottles will be required to build a two bed-roomed house. The plastic bottles will be filled with sand, then they will be held together by mud and cement to build the walls that will be bullet proof and earthquake resistant. The houses will be powered by solar panels and methane gas from recycled human and animal waste.

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