Roti, Kapda and Makaan (food, clothes and shelter) are the three things we need most in life. Though food and clothes don’t take up much from our paychecks, it is the shelter that is worrisome. Even if you manage to get yourself a small piece of land, building a house for yourself will send the number in your bank account to a dizzying low. However, the people of Nigeria have come up with a ‘bulletproof’ solution to not just the problem of housing but also garbage!
According to media reports, Nigeria throws out around 3 million bottles each day. These bottles take at least 450 years to decompose. That’s a long time for something to occupy the surface of the planet. As a solution to the problem, two NGOs Development Association for Renewable Energies and London based Africa Community Trust teamed up to build houses out of plastic bottles.
The bottles are filled with sand and held together using a mixture of mud and cement. The houses are powered using solar panels and methane gas from human and animal waste making them completely environment-friendly.