Bottle Houses - Wow !

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      Thank you for this link alex-adam. I posted it on the Bulgarian forum immediately. :dbgrtmb:

      I don't think Bulgaria has introduced anything of a sensible waste-treatment policy. We have no incineration plants, nothing like a recycling industry, no reliable awareness-raising campaigns on separate disposal, etc. Even waste collection is below standard...

      I hope that seeing this, ordinary citizens will start building structures for their own or for the public benefit. It will result in a cleaner city environment, and the lethargic government may eventually wake up.

      Moreover, these houses look beautiful, even artistic! :dbgrtmb:
       
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      Angelina we made one in our community garden with 2lt plastic bottles.
       
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        Any chance of a photo please Scotkat?

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          Scotkat, I'd also love to see photos - please.
          I find the idea great. It takes an industrial cargo of bottles, however. I also saw links on filling them, building the pillars and walls, etc.

          I couldn't find evidence of thermal expansion/shrinkage, for the structures which have to remain transparent (like greenhouses), and you can't fill the bottles with anything.

          Bottles will also become brittle with the frost...:scratch:

          I was more than impressed. I'm really interested.
           
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          Lovely idea, but a bit of a magnet to Arsonists. We had a recycled plastic picnic bench near us that became a melted puddle.
           
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          Quite a few of our schools in the area Fife/Dundee, built these last year

          Google plastic bottle greenhouse dundee
          The school projects were, to teach children
          The younger ones, via family collected bottles
          (local factories and massive offices collected them for the kids, our office alone provided 1500 ENOUGH for one 6x4 greenhouse 2LTR clear plastic )

          The older children got to do the dangerous work, cut the bottoms off, the bottles, drill quarter inch holes in the bottle tops,Make the wood work frames required on site

          All the kids got to wash the bottles and remove the labels etc
          then dowel rods/bamboo canes into bottom of frame bottles stacked up on them length ways, so about ten bottles to each dowel

          http://www.reapscotland.org.uk/wp-c...astic_Bottle_Greenhouse_Instructions_2004.pdf



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            Thanks for the information and link, Jack.

            I will pass this on to the Coordinator of our Community Growing Project* - I think we should have a go at building one of these greenhouses.

            a-a

            * Link: Grown in Middlesbrough
             
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            Yes Alex thats the one we used our coordinater sent for it.

            The hard part cutting the bottles.

            Then one of the volunteers also made use of the parts we cut off and made hanging bottles .

            He screwed them on to a base of wood .

            It was very effective.

            Now the hard part is getting volunteers to help out at our project .

             
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            Fascinating, although I'm not sure what happens to these houses when the PET starts to degrade.

            However, I can't see reusing these materials as a "solution" to the problem of waste - the solution would be to produce far less of it in the first place. Products such as plastic-bottled water and drinks, containerised milk, drinks in aluminium cans and wine already have a massive carbon footprint before they ever become a waste product. Lip-service to the need to recycle does nothing about controlling society's endless appetite for such products which is the real problem.

            When I'm prime minister bottled water will have a hefty price tag on it to reflect the cost to the environment in transportation. Fizzy sugary drinks will just be banned, end of. To replace the lost business CocaCola will be encouraged to diversify into chains of gyms and weight loss centres.
             
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              You have to pay in a gym

              If you are in an allotment or gym or community garden or your own garden .

              You get a good work out for free.


              This was a community garden project.

               
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              I likes Cream Soda, it got Orchids in it. But I want it in a glass bottle with 6d deposit on it again.
               
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                They manage to have an efficient deposit system in lots of third world countries, don't see why we can't still manage it here.
                 
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                Ned Seagoon : "This suit goes back to Moss Brothers in the morning."

                Butler : "Yes Sir, there's a deposit on it."

                Ned Seagoon : "Don't worry, it'll brush off."
                 
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                About a year ago, when we were touring through Brazil and other places, we stayed a few nights in a 'deluxe' cabin that had walls made of plastic bottles. The rest of the building was a mixture of big rocks with cement between them. Some of the plastic bottles were plastered over and some were left as they were. The bottles were filled with a mild solution of disinfectant and bleach!

                The cabin was on a small island in the forest.

                To get to our cabin we had to cross a river on a bridge with no sides.

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                This is 'deluxe'

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                The front door led straight into the bathroom/shower/toilet and then down two stone steps into the bedroom (no door, cupboards, shelves etc).

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                We got used to going over the bridge by torchlight with a raging river running below us. Fortunately we got out of there before the rains got heavier. :rolleyespink:

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