Canadian Innovation

[foragefarmer]

Two builders from Nova Scotia have build a house using 600,000 recycled plastic bottles. The plastic bottles were shredded and melted to make 6 inch formed walls.

The walls provide both structural strength and insulation and can withstand a Category 5 hurricane.

Only one of it's kind in the world. Canadian Innovation at it's best killing to birds with one stone, building homes and cleaning up plastic bottle at the same time.

Good on them!

[sumdumguy]

Killing two (2) birds?

[flea beetle]

How long would it take to pick the roadsides to get enough to build a house?

[farmaholic]

Just being Devil's advocate......if they used only "deposit paid" recyclable bottles....what would be the cost?

If they used other recyclable plastics that had no "return" monetary value.....that would be a different story.

Could you imagine the black smoke if that house went up in flames.

[flea beetle]

Maybe paper like drink box water bottle sort of things would work better?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

And what was the total energy required to gather, shred, melt etc, the bottles to create the house, and how does that compare with the energy invested in a traditional house, and isn't that what really matters? Trees will regrow, the fossil fuels burned won't.

[jazz]

The half life decay time for a plastic compound is a min 1000 yrs. That house going to be standing by then? Would have been better off to put the energy toward recyling it multiple times properly.

[TraderJoe]

www.paperlikedrinkboxwaterbottlesortofthing.ca

[macdon02]

Im guessing 24 Sussex drive is the location? Total cost? Half of the carbon tax collected in '19, '20 & '21?

[the big wheel]

Im guessing 24 Sussex drive is the location?

No that’s a paper made house sort of thing a ma jiggy. Lmao not good when it rains.

[GDR]

Wow if they can make a house out of water bottles, they could build a whole city out of chemical jugs!

[macdon02]

Wow if they can make a house out of water bottles, they could build a whole city out of chemical jugs!

And it would be acid rain resistant... because that's coming back into style. Does that make it a gmo house?