Recycling waste plastic material as green house is a good way for the Colombian group innovators. The inventor said that this innovation can simultaneously solve the problem of plastic pollution in Latin America and generally inadequate housing supply with international significance.
This innovative invention comes from a company in Bogota called “plastic concept”. It not only won the local Enterprise Innovation Award, has become “double” solution to plastic pollution and the local poor housing shortage endangering the planet.
This innovative concept was first inspired from Colombian singer Fernando Llanos, he used recycled plastic material to build a house for himself, the architecture students Oscar Mendez uses his thesis into professional research. Years later Mendes put this vision into practice, created a “plastic concept” company, to build a house with recycled plastic, Llanos has become one of the company’s partners.
Mendes believes that this idea not only applied for large numbers of poor people to solve the housing problem, the concept of environmental protection is filled with more international significance. “Social significance of this project is far-reaching, because Latin American housing crisis is extremely serious.” Mendes said.
In addition, the project also has environmental and economic benefits. “Only waste generated in Bogota, there is about 12% of plastic products in a city, the waste utilization is only about 13%.”
Mendes provided plastic recycling materials to build environmentally friendly housing. Although these housing area is only 40 square meters, but it is very “complete”, each has two rooms, including a toilet, living room, dining room and kitchen. Such a house built can apply for four ordinary people without any professional technology.
“Concept Plastics” in Bogota has a plastic waste processing plant that will recycle waste plastic into required house “brick.” “Our partnership has plastics recyclers staff, there are some private companies brought us industrial plastic waste.” Mendes said. The company can receive 100-120 tons of plastic waste every month.
Mendes company in Colombia and more environmentally friendly construction of such housing, the most representative works of Cauca in the Pacific coast city of melon ratio. They are for the homeless built 42 housing units, with a total area is 1000 square meters, cost approximately $ 130 per square meter to build these houses with a total of only 15 people, 28 days times.
“The concept of plastic” company believes that the production of such houses is the most significant environmental problems and resolving poverty housing. “We hope to inspire the production of plastic enterprises, encourage them into plastic housing. We also want to call on everyone to develop plastic and other garbage diet, that all of us can contribute to a housing for the poor force. “Mendes said.
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