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Modern people consume huge amounts of disposable plastic bottles every day. In addition to recycling, plastic bottles have many Other uses—such as replacements for conventional building materials. In the refugee area of ​​Algeria in northern Africa, engineers used plastic bottles to fill the sand and built them. Don't think that this is a temporary construction. In fact, this is an environmentally friendly and intelligent design. “Plastic Bottle House†is the idea of ​​28-year-old engineer Tateh Lehbib Braica. It is not just waste utilization. This round room has functions such as cooling and sand control.
Just as the Chaoyang was just illuminating the Sahara Desert, Breka went to the garbage dump 2.8 miles away from the refugee camp, where he could find treasures to improve people's lives: discarded plastic bottles.
Breka is an engineer and has received a scholarship from the European Commission to study at Las Palmas University in the Canary Islands. He lives in a refugee camp in southern Algeria. There are a total of five refugee camps around here, and more than 160,000 people regard it as home. They have been living here since the outbreak of the Western Sahara War in 1975. Breka had a desire to become a journalist when he was a child, but he chose energy majors because he saw that his hometown was particularly lacking in science and technology.
Idea source
The original intention at the beginning was very simple. Breka just wanted to provide a shelter for the family. After all, the desert is too hot! It will even heat up to 44 degrees Celsius and is vulnerable to storms. Breka said: "I grew up in the brick house. The roof is made of metal tiles. My family and I have to be exposed to high temperatures, rain and sandstorms. Sometimes the roof is also smashed." "I don't want my grandma to bear it." Hot pain, I want her to have a more comfortable and better living environment."
Therefore, the young desert boy, based on his own understanding of the land and climate, knew that he must act to improve people's lives in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way.
"I remember seeing a documentary about building a house with plastic bottles. I was thinking then, why don't I try it?"
"Crazy Bottle Boy"
At the beginning of the implementation of the plan, faced a lot of difficulties. No one believes that "plastic bottled sand" can build a house. They think that Breka will definitely fail. When he emptied the bottle on the road and in the garbage, someone would call him the "crazy bottle boy."
Breka said, "But these mental blows have made me more motivated and stronger."
The good news is that, slowly, "I took the action, and when the appearance of the house began to have a little result, everyone's views changed. Some people even took the initiative to bring the waste bottle to me."
The process of building a house
The construction process was very simple. "We will go to the street, the garbage dump, and then bring the empty bottles to the sand dunes. Another group of people is responsible for pouring the sand into the bottles.
When the bottles are full, trucks will come over and transport them to different sites, where cement craftsmen will begin the next project.
Throughout the construction process, we will first make the base, then put the bottles in a circle and fix them with cement. â€
In addition to being more environmentally friendly, heat-insulated, rain-proof, and stronger, the round design of the plastic bottle house can prevent the accumulation of sand and sand, and the square house cannot have this effect. The exterior wall is painted with white paint and can reflect up to 90% of the sun's rays. The double-glazed roof has ventilation space, which increases the heat insulation effect. The two windows are specially designed to enhance ventilation at different heights. This design makes the indoor temperature lower than the average room by about 5 °C.
And because the shape of the whole house is round, the disadvantage is that it is more difficult to place furniture inside, so Breka is still in the experiment, I hope the appearance is round, but the inside is square.
Cheaper, stronger, and more environmentally friendly
It usually costs about 1,000 euros to cover a typical brick house in the local area, but a similarly constructed plastic bottle room costs only 1/4 (250 euros). After knowing the design of Breka, the UNHCR greatly appreciated the allocation of 55,000 euros to help build plastic bottle houses in five refugee camps, mainly for families with physical and mental disabilities or special needs. Using 6,000 plastic bottles, four workers can build a plastic bottle house in a week. Even better, think about the positive impact this has on the environment: not only saves conventional building materials, but also means that thousands of plastic bottles will not be disposed of in landfills or become marine pollutants. .
I want the world to see
Breka likes to take pictures and record his life, and is also very active in the social media. He also sends messages to newspapers and TV stations. The BBC team also interviewed him to see the results of his construction, and a two-minute film to spread his plan.
The UNHCR published an article on their official website for Breka's program content. “I was very encouraged when I saw that my plan was working hard and step by step to success.â€
Breka is promoting his plan │ Image from Facebook
Hope of clasping hands
Located in the northwestern part of Africa, a conflict zone that has been forgotten by the world. It was once a Spanish colony. After the withdrawal of Spain, Mauritania, Morocco, and the local independent armed group Polisario fought against each other to fight for territory. Later, due to political instability, Mauritania abandoned its claim to the Western Territory. Morocco immediately occupied the Mauritania withdrawal site and erected a 2,700-kilometer high wall in the occupied area to encircle the coastal economic value.
With the support of Algeria, the Polisario Front announced the establishment of the “Saharan Democratic Republic†and controlled a deserted area that accounts for one-third of all Western Sahara, and established a refugee camp with a population of about 160,000.
After years of military conflict, under the conditions of the United Nations mediation to hold a "referendum" every other year, the two sides ceased fire in 1991, but said that the good referendum was not held because of the Moroccan repentance, and the subsequent coordination was always the breakdown of negotiations. More than 100,000 Western Saskatchewan refugees are still waiting in the refugee camp for a referendum that does not know when it will arrive, and the days of returning to their homes in the foreseeable future.
The appearance of the round room │ Image from website middleeast eye
Breka's confidence in his construction plan is not only from the obvious value of environmental protection and improving living conditions. "In this desolate desert, we are still waiting for the referendum. We often feel helpless, desperate, unfair... Even if my construction is not the final solution to these problems, I am still encouraged to see By the way, we can use our own hands to change our living environment and make our lives more dignified."
“The best thing I learned is that our hands are holding on to the enormous potential of creating change. We have improved our lives with our own skills, even if we have so few resources. If you don’t try, how can you? Can you know what you will get?
My dream is to help every Saharan family in need to build a plastic bottle house and alleviate people's suffering. This is how I fight for freedom. â€
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