Yes it’s true. The United States can make 3.5 million houses, equivalent to the number of homeless people in the country, out of plastic bottles in just a year by optimizing the 129.6 million plastic bottles it uses everyday!
A bullet proof, fire proof and earthquake resistant house built with just plastic bottles filled with sand, molded together with mud or cement. The walls maintain an indoor temperature of 64 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.
According to statistics from treehugger.com, America uses 47.3 billion plastic bottles per year. Only 14,000 bottles are required build a two-bedroom, 1200 square foot house. The United States throws away enough plastic bottles to build 9257 of these two- bedroom houses per day, which means just over 3.35 million homes, the same number of homeless people in America.
By the way, did you know Amnesty International had reported in 2011 that empty houses in America outnumbered homeless families by five times? Is the problem of homelessness really about a lack of housing in the United States?
Third world countries are already building houses out of plastic bottles. Let’s hope America wakes up, and starts using waste-products to construct homes for its homeless men, women and (especially) children…. If it simply cannot bring itself to start making use of all those empty, soulless, homes.
This will never happen in AMerica. Way to many building codes and permits needed to do anything.
this is unfortunate but true. it’s like dugout houses into a hillside or strait into the ground using thick plastic sheeting as a water guard. even though such a home is more efficient, it actually depreciates the value of the land under the current model, making any such project not commercially viable. it would take a benevolent owner of private land willing to undertake the project, and donate the housing… but then you get into the impossible nature of evaluation, value, and property tax. it is strait BS
Where can I find blueprints for this I and my babies are currently homeless and I have a job I don’t smoke drink or do drugs just can’t afford it
What part of the country are you living in? I am an old disabled woman but I bought a few acres in Texas in the hopes of building something like this, completely off the grid.
I would be interested in letting you build on my land in exchange for you building a house for me too. I am currently living with a niece of mine in Austin but my land is in Caldwell. If you are interested please call my niece, Patches Home Phone – 512.800.8459. If you try to send email put in all caps: OFF GRID HOME ON LAND. I hardly check my email so the phone would be best. Thanks, Emma Beverage
I actually rather like style of the bottle look on a house, I thought it looked pretty cool. does that make me weird. I want one.
I want one too
The issue is land, corporations are just sitting on property to increase it’s value. And the government wants to make them happy more than it’s own people.
Land is a huge part of it. The other huge part of it is that very few people are really open to the idea of having “those kinds of people” living nearby.
I would love to help the homeless… I have no idea where to start…land is a issue in America…big farmers and big cities take up most of the land leave very little land for building shelters for the homeless…
I had an idea but being able to do it would take a lot of money…I know that a lot people really don’t care… I helped the homeless… I bring to my home and stay until that they get on to their feet…I have kids and I still help…at time we struggle because of little food but we try our best…
Start by voting for Bernie Sanders
i don’t mean to spoil all the fun, but won’t the plastic degrade in a few short years and all the sand run out? I am a big fan of rammed earth.
450 years
Different kinds of plastic can degrade at different times, but the average time for a plastic bottle to completely degrade is at least 450 years. It can even take some bottles 1000 years to biodegrade! That’s a long time for even the smallest bottle.Oct 31, 2011
Im tired of being homeless id live in one and be thankful every minute
So, who is going to collect all those bottles (scattered throughout homes over 3 1/2 million square miles), get them ready, send them to places manned by who? To be used in buildings built by who? On land provided by who and paid for by who?
I wonder if there is a project already working on these and if there is any way to volunteer for it?
soy sudamericano, alguien que atreva a venir a mi terreno y realizarlo?
First! it’ll consume 20 times or more cement quantity compared to bricks concept.
Secondly,the plastics offer no security from intruders who could Pierce through for different negative reasons.
And there’s this factors of natural elements like sun,dust & rain which will devalue the material in not long a time.
Lastly, the humans can’t refer to the stone age in the midst of plenty!
It’s either bricks,wooden or concrete homes,the latter option (Used plastic bottles) Degrades!