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Used disposable bottles represent a large a problem for the ecology of our planet. They do not decompose for centuries in nature, swim tons in the oceans. Use plastic containers cannot be reappointed for their intended purpose – for example, the term shelf life on the packaging of mineral water does not mean a time when water will deteriorate by itself, and the date when it will stand out toxic substances from the bottle.
However, such material, as it turned out, can be effectively apply in another area. A resourceful businessman living in Panama, developed an ambitious project to create a village where everything without Exceptions to the house will be built from empty plastic containers. it will not only give housing to several hundred citizens Central American state, but also finally clear the local dumps that look like whole mountains of plastic bottles.
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The village has already received the expressive name “Plastic Bottle Village “, which in our language translates as” Village of plastic bottle. “In the near future they plan to build from ninety to one hundred and twenty residential buildings, the walls of which will be constitute a densely folded polymer container, fixed metal grills and coated with concrete. For a country with such a building material turned out to be quite a subequatorial climate suitable.
Why burn used bottles and clog them up air?
The author of the idea was a Canadian businessman Robert Bizau. The entrepreneur considered that in the felled area in Panamanian a jungle occupying about thirty-three and a half hectares, you can build a unique village with buildings from almost free stuff. At the end of last year, they built here trial one-story house that marked the completion of the first stage of the project. Now the construction of a spacious two-story dwelling.
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Previously, Robert Bizau led the polymer processing plant waste in the Panamanian city of Boca del Toro. However, the Canadian quickly realized that burning centners of plastic, clogging the air toxic waste, dangerous and irrational. Then he came to head the idea to build high-grade disposable bottles and cans at home. The businessman quickly unloaded landfills, and then began to collect unnecessary containers from local residents.
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It took more than ten thousand to build the first house bottles of polyethylene terephthalate, which usually sell mineral water, cola, juice and other soft drinks. For the two-story building that is being built now will be required in common difficulty twenty five thousand bottles. Steel house frames roofs – made of metal. Pipes are easily laid in the walls and electric cables.
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It is reported that houses made from used plastic containers have high rates of insulation and energy saving. If outside hot, inside the temperature is usually seventeen percent below. And vice versa…
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