The First-Ever Plastic Bottle Village Is In-Development
The First-Ever Plastic Bottle Village Is In-Development
Nathaniel Ainley — Sep 19 2016
Tucked away in a remote jungle in Panama sits the first ever Plastic Bottle Village, a small community of homes made from recycled plastic bottles. Canadian expat Robert Bezeau and his team of workers are hard at work constructing the eco-residential community atop 83 acres of established jungle on the island of Bocas Del Toro. The wall panels of each home are built using steel rebars that are welded together to create square mesh cages. Each cage is then tightly packed with plastic bottles and then covered with 1’’ of cement. The air in these plastic bottles acts as an insulator, making the interior temperature 35 degrees cooler than the outside wall. This unique panel method creates a natural gravity ventilation system as the fresh air continuously circulates through the panel filter.
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