CONSTRUCTION WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS. PLASTIC BOTTLES
It seems very interesting post today on the blog have found Basurilla. We can see how human creativity has no limits and the need sharpens the wit, something we are losing too much things we especially do not give them all made.
It is a green building project taking place in Guatemala, carried out since 2005.
After the destruction caused by Hurricane Stan in communities around Lake Atitlan in the same year, Atitlan. Pura Vida worked with groups of victims (particularly children) in San Marcos la Laguna and Santiago Atitlan, helping them regain their lives and their homes by building 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 dry-and thus convert solid waste " plastic bricks, easy storage and transportation for construction.
In a territorial and cultural environment where nature plays an important role, and with limited resources, have managed 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.
