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
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.
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?
Where i have to pay to have the manual to built it here in venezuela's borders with colombia...please i want to do something with l the bottles of my town. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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?
Hey dear, I'm in Africa right now;Sénégal exactly. I really would like to offer this alternativ to senegal people. Would it be possible for you to come and help us to teach how to do it ?
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!
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.
Hi, currently I am working on a project funded by UNDP, intention is to develop a zero carbon build form in rural Bangladesh, plastic bottles are very much available here, would it fit (bottle + mud) as efficient wall in our project to achieve our goal? what you think?
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 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.
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).
the only down side i can see to this idea is the enormous time it takes to fill the bottles with dirt. You are filling bottles through a small opening, it would take a massive amount of time to fill a large quantity of bottles.
Seems like filling could be an industrial process. They fill bottles all the time with all sorts of things. But then for smaller projects, you get a funnel and sand and go to town.
Think of all that BPA leeching into the water tanks. What do you do with the plastic bottles when the building is knocked down? Wouldn't they then be harder to recycle.
+Shtoops27 Think of watching for cracks and sealing them with concrete/mortar. Problem solved. Bottles dont touch the water. Its surrounded by mortar/concrete.
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.
Andreas, are you still building the houses using plastic bottles? If not why? If you are do you have different plans for different size buildings and have you done any building with a second story? I have so many questions that I would love answers to so if you have the time........Thanks for the great video.
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.
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.
Hello, we have seen people building little boats and water tanks and are interested for a community in the Pacific coast of Colombia, very isolated from he world. Who could teach us how to use the bottles? Thank youuu for what you do, soil and all ;)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
instead of letting the plastic smodder in walls, what is a nice solution for third world countries, we, the "rich", here in europ, amerika, etc, should turn our plastic back into oil. this is 80% more economic than burning it. just heat it up and let the gas flow through water the oil will collect on top of the water. just google turn plastic into oil/diesel
Hi sorry I am not running a university so a lot of answers I still not have . But its better we store our plastic bottle problems in walls that we can recover, than in landfills , and by the way the most of all our plastic goes to the ocean.
in our tanks we cover the inside with cement plaster, all the other tanks in the market are build only with plastic and in many country’s no control about the quality of there plastic. Remember we are using PET bottle and millions of people drink water
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.
Thanks for ask: For mi a bottle filled with soil is a brick so I think its posible, but until today I did not build a pool. So be the first to do it!! Start a small one first and copy my binding system to get a flexible and strong wall
What happens when they need to be taken down?? where does the plastic go then?? Recycle them and build with cob!! Plastic getting used like this just means more plastic has to be produced instead of recycled.
Nice concept but seems the UV affect bottles and without some reBar the morter would fail and crack ..even loud thunder ..not for living home but small shop or raisebed garden ...useful indeed
We have build water tanks with more than 20.000 liter out of bouttle , buildings more than 5 meter high so before you do such a comment try it ore ask some who lives in a bottle house
They cover the bottles completely, so they aren't exposed to the sun. Even if they only lasted ten years this is a much better solution than living an a hot tin home or having millions of bottles lying around. The ones I read about like this were filled with sand, mortared together and they were cool inside, safe and bulletproof.
Hi we are using bottles from the trash coming from the same comunity we are not transporting bottles around the world this is a job that coca cola and pepsi doing..
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?
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 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
But i don´t understand? If you offer so much time to make buildings out of these bottles why you don´t offer this time to recycle the bottels and with this earned money you can build real houses!!??
Great !!! Would be nice if you send mi some picture!!, But ECOTEC is not building we a training and the result is a building and the people stay with the knolege
@WaimanaloBlue we plaster the tank using cement but think about that we all drink water bottle and a lot more of drinking staff before...using like a brick
hello! namaste....... i am from nepal n now in our country shelter is much needed deu to earthquake.iit can be one solution for earthquake victims so could u help how to build it how much it costs
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.
What about when they start to degrade would they let off a chemical toxic fume. We are talking plastic here. Love the idea but wonder about living in it.
i don't know if its will resist in time and if its will support dampness , if we can hitch something up to a bottles wall...if all this plastic does not create an accumulation of toxicity inside the building
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.
@CrowsNest2012 seriously get off of the child card, I'm tired of being trivalized/marginalized as an adult. we should start recycling the floating islands of trash in the oceans . this would make a great source of material. where's the profit motive though?
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.
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!
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?
This certainly beats the piece's of tin and broken up sheets of thin wood many poor countries are living in, and can afford many others the saving for say a green house leaving the walls as empty capped bottles, to conduct heat or insulate for winter, connecting with glue, and stabilizing with post every so many feet.
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
Con todo respeto no creo que esto sea la solución a la contaminación por botellas pet, es sólo un uso distinto. La solución sería que no se fabricaran más o se hicieran con material biodegradable. Esto no soluciona nada, por el contrario se enseña a mantener una industria contaminante.
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...
How is a plastic bottle of dirt any different than a brick or piece of lumber in a hurricane. And a lot those "shitty adobe houses" you spoke of, have weathered many a hurricane in their lifetime. Even the rounded shape of many of these buildings would make them less likely to fall apart in high winds than a stick built flat wall. "Kid maiming grenade?" Are you serious? In a high wind anything can be a missile. Even "decent building materials."
People now are self-aggrandizing They must be connected via phone/text to a hoard of obscene/unseen drones. I have watched as folks in the past 20 years have increasingly given up their own personal freedom & unique identities to walk down a beautiful path adorned with natural beauty and sounds to blindly, deafly marching to beat sounds from their ipods. I marveled at only 2 tables of people sharing life & food in a restaurant, while everyone else was looking away from the other & down 2 text!
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.
Sr. Froese, please don't take my criticism as an unwillingness to try anything. I just find this particular usage more trouble than it's worth. If anything, I would grind the bottles up, melt them, and extrude them into various dimensional building materials. or outright recycled, even though it is not financially sound (right now). I am aware of the problems with the oceanic gyres, but I don't think it's "all" or even "most" plastic waste. it's 14b lbs of trash. A lot. but not all.
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".
I'm not advocating this usage. I find it silly. It's 'reusing' trash by burying it in dirt, which, when done by/at a landfill, makes native americans cry. Point is, it's still trash. Trash covered in dirt, daub, or adobe. Only difference between being in a landfill or this usage is location. But I find your derision rather humorous as EVERYTHING breaks down. This plastic is rather well protected from UVL by it's daub covering. As such, those structures will most likely outlive their necessity.
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.
Great video, ruined by horrible music.
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
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?
Love this!!! Goes right with my motto:
"INNOVATION NOT LEGISLATION"
google: voluntaryism (note the spelling)
This seems like a cord wood construction technique but using bottles instead of cord wood....good job....
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.
Biiiiig LIKE! Bravo! Congratulation. The plastic bottles can be used as thermal insulation?
Good one relatives,we would like to share with our relations in Kenya, blessings from uncle goodKnife
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
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?
Where i have to pay to have the manual to built it here in venezuela's borders with colombia...please i want to do something with l the bottles of my town.
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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?
Hey dear, I'm in Africa right now;Sénégal exactly. I really would like to offer this alternativ to senegal people. Would it be possible for you to come and help us to teach how to do it ?
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!
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.
Hi, currently I am working on a project funded by UNDP, intention is to develop a zero carbon build form in rural Bangladesh, plastic bottles are very much available here, would it fit (bottle + mud) as efficient wall in our project to achieve our goal? what you think?
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 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.
this is so awesome good on you guys
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).
It's more concrete than bottle.
Interested in the subject, but couldn't stand the euro-trash dance music.
the only down side i can see to this idea is the enormous time it takes to fill the bottles with dirt. You are filling bottles through a small opening, it would take a massive amount of time to fill a large quantity of bottles.
Seems like filling could be an industrial process. They fill bottles all the time with all sorts of things. But then for smaller projects, you get a funnel and sand and go to town.
Think of all that BPA leeching into the water tanks. What do you do with the plastic bottles when the building is knocked down? Wouldn't they then be harder to recycle.
+Shtoops27 Think of watching for cracks and sealing them with concrete/mortar. Problem solved. Bottles dont touch the water. Its surrounded by mortar/concrete.
Love the floral effect. Exciting structures.
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.
Andreas, are you still building the houses using plastic bottles? If not why? If you are do you have different plans for different size buildings and have you done any building with a second story? I have so many questions that I would love answers to so if you have the time........Thanks for the great video.
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.
too much trouble. way too much work to build with those things. Concrete canvas is a far quicker, cheaper solution for shelter.
Wow, My best friend, It's so beautiful video !!! enjoyed watching your video
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.
Hello, we have seen people building little boats and water tanks and are interested for a community in the Pacific coast of Colombia, very isolated from he world. Who could teach us how to use the bottles? Thank youuu for what you do, soil and all ;)
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.
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.
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.
Love to learn this technique. Brilliant.
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!
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.
instead of letting the plastic smodder in walls, what is a nice solution for third world countries, we, the "rich", here in europ, amerika, etc, should turn our plastic back into oil. this is 80% more economic than burning it. just heat it up and let the gas flow through water the oil will collect on top of the water. just google turn plastic into oil/diesel
Hi
sorry I am not running a university so a lot of answers I still not have .
But its better we store our plastic bottle problems in walls that we can recover, than in landfills , and by the way the most of all our plastic goes to the ocean.
in our tanks we cover the inside with cement plaster, all the other tanks in the market are build only with plastic and in many country’s no control about the quality of there plastic. Remember we are using PET bottle and millions of people drink water
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.
Thanks for ask:
For mi a bottle filled with soil is a brick so I think its posible, but until today I did not build a pool. So be the first to do it!! Start a small one first and copy my binding system to get a flexible and strong wall
What happens when they need to be taken down?? where does the plastic go then?? Recycle them and build with cob!! Plastic getting used like this just means more plastic has to be produced instead of recycled.
soy de la Patagonia Argentina, aquí los vientos son muy fuertes, con ráfagas de hasta 120 km x hora, éste tipo de construcción lo resiste???
Useless. Suggestion: How about showing HOW to prepare and use the bottles? That might help motivate people to build with bottles and recycle them.
Nice concept but seems the UV affect bottles and without some reBar the morter would fail and crack ..even loud thunder ..not for living home but small shop or raisebed garden ...useful indeed
We have build water tanks with more than 20.000 liter out of bouttle , buildings more than 5 meter high so before you do such a comment try it ore ask some who lives in a bottle house
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Believe mi there are not cracking because we are paining our ore putting plaster
They cover the bottles completely, so they aren't exposed to the sun. Even if they only lasted ten years this is a much better solution than living an a hot tin home or having millions of bottles lying around. The ones I read about like this were filled with sand, mortared together and they were cool inside, safe and bulletproof.
Why not shred the bottles into strands and mix with mud to make a strong adobe wall, this would be quicker and stronger?
Hi
we are using bottles from the trash coming from the same comunity we are not transporting bottles around the world this is a job that coca cola and pepsi doing..
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?
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 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
But i don´t understand? If you offer so much time to make buildings out of these bottles why you don´t offer this time to recycle the bottels and with this earned money you can build real houses!!??
Great !!! Would be nice if you send mi some picture!!,
But ECOTEC is not building we a training and the result is a building and the people stay with the knolege
@WaimanaloBlue
we plaster the tank using cement
but think about that we all drink water bottle and a lot more of drinking staff before...using like a brick
hello! namaste.......
i am from nepal n now in our country shelter is much needed deu to earthquake.iit can be one solution for earthquake victims so could u help how to build it how much it costs
What an excellent idea! Just wondering, do you fill the bottles with something or are they structurally strong enough to be used empty?
Soil.
Emma Rainbow That's good, got plenty of that lying around lol. Thanks for the reply.
+Jay Kaner no problem, just make sure that's it's dry, and packed in hard.
I know this and Mikel Reynolds is a great person but he did this with cement and without binding. And I do it wit soil and with a binding sistem!!
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.
No chemical need only the friction of our binding material ( soil ore cement )depends what we decide its enough for make the walls strong and flexible
What about when they start to degrade would they let off a chemical toxic fume. We are talking plastic here. Love the idea but wonder about living in it.
i don't know if its will resist in time and if its will support dampness , if we can hitch something up to a bottles wall...if all this plastic does not create an accumulation of toxicity inside the building
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.
very very cool, thumbs up!
@CrowsNest2012 seriously get off of the child card, I'm tired of being trivalized/marginalized as an adult. we should start recycling the floating islands of trash in the oceans . this would make a great source of material. where's the profit motive though?
Plastic replaced something that was 100% recyclable and biodegradable, GLASS.
this is amazing
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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.
Would the solution not be to move away from using so much plastic in the first place??? This is a great project but is it a solution???
You are right but first after 300-500 jears and second we put our briks in walls and cover it with paint ore palster.
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!
not everybody can build an earthship , but everybody can make a brick out of a bottel, filling this with soil!!
We are filling the bottel using soil and also for the binding we are using soil
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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?
This certainly beats the piece's of tin and broken up sheets of thin wood many poor countries are living in, and can afford many others the saving for say a green house leaving the walls as empty capped bottles, to conduct heat or insulate for winter, connecting with glue, and stabilizing with post every so many feet.
Very very cool idea
Are there plans available for this? This would be a great missions or Boy Scout project!
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!
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Dumb down only , cause the music, and not showing detail on build . You copy on post other hard work .
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
Hi. I think this is amazing. Would you come to Jamaica and do this or share your technology with us?
Con todo respeto no creo que esto sea la solución a la contaminación por botellas pet, es sólo un uso distinto. La solución sería que no se fabricaran más o se hicieran con material biodegradable. Esto no soluciona nada, por el contrario se enseña a mantener una industria contaminante.
this is correct!!and you can start to build the next day just separate soil and bottle and string.
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Fill them with Great Stuff expanding foam first then pot the cap on this makes a stronger composit that insulates too.
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...
If your worried about plastics leaching contaminants, don't ever drink out a water bottle again... lol, seriously, use some common sense.
take this to Haiti please... ill go n help you
invite mi !!
When's the next project ?
80% all our plastic is going to the ocean this is the reality Better to make bricks out of it
Nice.
very nice
How is a plastic bottle of dirt any different than a brick or piece of lumber in a hurricane. And a lot those "shitty adobe houses" you spoke of, have weathered many a hurricane in their lifetime. Even the rounded shape of many of these buildings would make them less likely to fall apart in high winds than a stick built flat wall. "Kid maiming grenade?" Are you serious? In a high wind anything can be a missile. Even "decent building materials."
People now are self-aggrandizing They must be connected via phone/text to a hoard of obscene/unseen drones. I have watched as folks in the past 20 years have increasingly given up their own personal freedom & unique identities to walk down a beautiful path adorned with natural beauty and sounds to blindly, deafly marching to beat sounds from their ipods. I marveled at only 2 tables of people sharing life & food in a restaurant, while everyone else was looking away from the other & down 2 text!
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.
Sr. Froese, please don't take my criticism as an unwillingness to try anything. I just find this particular usage more trouble than it's worth. If anything, I would grind the bottles up, melt them, and extrude them into various dimensional building materials. or outright recycled, even though it is not financially sound (right now).
I am aware of the problems with the oceanic gyres, but I don't think it's "all" or even "most" plastic waste. it's 14b lbs of trash. A lot. but not all.
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".
I'm not advocating this usage. I find it silly. It's 'reusing' trash by burying it in dirt, which, when done by/at a landfill, makes native americans cry. Point is, it's still trash. Trash covered in dirt, daub, or adobe. Only difference between being in a landfill or this usage is location. But I find your derision rather humorous as EVERYTHING breaks down. This plastic is rather well protected from UVL by it's daub covering. As such, those structures will most likely outlive their necessity.