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The star shapes look so cool in the walls!
Making it all cement would be costly and you would still need a medium to act as structure for the cement. You can not simply pour cement and have it form into a wall. In the U.S., we usually use rebar and hardware cloth for this sort of application, so cement walls are somewhat expensive. The use of the bottles reduces the materials costs as well as reducing waste by reusing materials that would otherwise end up as trash.
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but are you saying that you think glass would degrade faster than papercrete? Glass is a very long lived resource and does not pose the same problems as the paper content of papercrete.
It's fantastic if glass in your area is highly recycled. Rates of recycling vary and there are no places that pay for glass around here. There are recycle bins, but with little incentive to sort garbage, a lot of glass still ends up in landfills. Regardless, a project like this recycles those bottles into something interesting and useful. Either way, the glass is being reused, right? ;)
The bouttle are filled whis earth ore construction waste and have a very good isolacion betwen the bouttle we do not use cement
www.eco-tecnologia.com
The glass bottles aren't going to magically break with mud inside of them. That doesn't even make sense. Do you windows and glass doors at home break for no reason? A glass bottle with mud inside would be much more durable than a glass window standing on its own.
earthquake 7.1 richter tel us don belive the cement industry !!
After 16 years living in 3 world you learn other reality
Andreas
www.eco-tecnologia.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QF5CRoPI1g
he also did a TED talk which can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FON-UK_1kyI
and a documentary was made about him called Garbage Warrior wich can be seen on voddler.com for free
dont be so quick to judge from ur current knowledge ;)
I have done a roof using empy bouttles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QF5CRoPI1g
www.eco-tecnologia.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QF5CRoPI1g
www.eco-tecnologia.com
This idea has been used frequently, all over the world. Glass bottles don't break, unless the owners of the houses have habits of beating their walls with hammers. Most don't.
The difference between glass bottles and cement is that cement is opaque, and doesn't let the sunlight in. Since you're not a builder, I understand why you wouldn't realize this.
Thx
From U of Michigan Engineering dept website on bioplastics UMICH
In ideal situations, yes, anaerobic degradation of plastic in landfill does occur, but as stated above, this is not neccessarily the norm. I think that a plastic bottle in an anaerobic, or a dry climate like in the pictures above, a plastic bottle will last a very, very long time.