CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS WITH RECYCLED. PLASTIC BOTTLES
We find it very interesting post today on the blog have found New posts . We can see how human creativity has no limits and the need for the mother of invention, something we are losing too much on things we have and all that do not give all made.
It is a green building project taking place in Guatemala , carried out since 2005.
After the devastation caused by Hurricane Stan in communities around Lake Atitlan in the same year, Atitlán. Pura Vida worked with groups of victims (particularly children) in San Marcos, La Laguna and Santiago Atitlán, helping them regain their lives and homes through the construction with recycled materials. After two years of experience and visible success, the pilot project became an ecological movement around Lake Pura Vida teaches local people to fill used plastic bottles with plastic trash-clean and dry, and thus convert solid waste " plastic bricks, easily storable and transportable for construction.
In a territorial and cultural environment where nature plays an important role, and with limited resources, have been able to find answers to the increasingly widespread problem of waste, with the addition that in most villages in Guatemala do not have any system garbage collection.
