Nigeria’s Kaduna state now has its first three-room house built out of sand-filled plastic bottles, used as bricks. The project helps clear some of the landfill waste via plastic bottles which take a long time to biodegrade as millions of these items are dumped into water and landfills each year.
The bottle recycling program was launched by Katrin Macmillan in December, using plastic bottles and their lids to build homes with land for the first building donated by Chris Vassilou. Yahaya Ahmed, CEO of Association for Renewable Energies (DARE), set out to build energy-autonomous houses from recycled materials. DARE have brought Andres Froesse, founder of Eco-Tec Soluciones Ambientales, to Nigeria to train local masons in the bottle building development technique.
The next project will be to build a school hall in Seluja at the Africa School of Excellence which will also train the students in the bottle brick making technique.
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