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Startup recycles plastic water bottles into remarkable 3D-printed homes — and it could help address the nation's housing crisis

The next time you take a bag of plastic bottles to the recycler, you might be providing the building material for a new home ...
Yahoo

'Earthship' homes made from old cans, bottles and tires are being rediscovered

TAOS, New Mexico — Old tires, crumpled cans and empty wine bottles are piling up at construction sites across the desert. A renewed purpose awaits these discarded items, which will become the building ...
UNHCR

Bottled sand builds better homes for Sahrawi refugees

TINDOUF, Algeria – With a master’s degree in energy efficiency, Sahrawi refugee Tateh Lehbib Breica had originally planned to build an energy efficient home in the desert, using discarded bottles for ...
Reuters

Architects seek plastic bottles to build shelters for Mexico quake homeless

TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of empty plastic bottles could be filled with rubble and earth to build quake-resistant emergency shelters for people made homeless in ...
New York Post

Gen Z is ditching water in plastic bottles for delivery in expensive glass jugs

Life is plastic but that isn’t fantastic, according to Gen Z and millennials. The younger generations, as well as scores of TikTok influencers of all ages, are subscribing to water delivery services ...