Plastic Fantastic, House Made Entirely Of Plastic Bottles

A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Tito Ingenieri and his house made of six milion beer bottles. Tito is from Argentina and it took him 19 years to finish his eco friendly house.

At Puerto Iguazu, near the frontier between Argentina and Brazil, comes another amazing house made entirely with recycled materials. Made by a local family, its walls have over 1200 PET bottles and its ceiling, more than 1300 TetraPak cartons.

The house is an initiative of Alfredo Santa Cruz and his family, who did it as a personal project to show the enormous value of materials we throw everyday. We don’t know what is the deal with the argentinians and their eco friendly buildings that raise awareness, but they got our vote.

“Domestic waste can be transformed into useful stuff. We developed our own technique, which allows people to build a house that’s perfectly functional at a very low cost and with their own hands. This is not just a project, but a reality,” says Alfredo Santa Cruz.

The family is now open to give free courses about construction with recovered materials (asking only for travel expenses and a place to stay) with the idea of expanding this practice so that more people are able to build with trash.

Apart from the mentioned amount of bottles and Tetra Pak cartons, the house has 140 compact disk cases in its doors and windows, 120 plastic bottles in couches, and another 200 bottles in a bed.

The place has a big house and a smaller children home, apart from furniture and accessories made with recycled materials as well.

Even if we’ve seen some houses with plastic bottles before, we gotta give some credit to this amazing construction.

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