Ecoladrillo

While perusing various wikis to add Permies stuff to, I ran across this interesting thing on Appropedia: the Ecoladrillo, which are houses and other structures built out of empty plastic bottles.

They don't really look like they're made from bottles; there are finishing touches added  to conceal the chief component.

NOTE: The none of the Natural Building forums seemed appropriate for this, so I posted it here.

What a beautiful word! Reminds me of another lovely latin (Spanish) word: chiringuito. It's something like a makeshift beach bar, stand, little shop or tiny house, or all of them in one multi-purpose construction. A chiringuito may be an ecoladrillo too, I suppose :D

I've seen the "pound dirt into plastic bottles for building" which is a variation of this mentioned in the link, in another place. I hadn't heard about jamming other wastes like Styrofoam and plastic bags in which considering all the waste on this planet, I think that's brilliant! Yes, it would be time-consuming on an individual scale, but as a community building project, it would also support youth "ownership" in their school.

In a perfect world, we simply would stop creating so much non-biodegradable waste. A local town determined that the most prevalent single plastic garbage item on their beaches were plastic spoons. They have locally banned plastic cutlery - it was Ucluelat  - so has Tofino - yeah!
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/ucluelet-also-says-no-to-single-use-plastic-utensils-5203194#:

However, until we get to that point, let's find better uses for the results than fouling our beaches or filling our land fills.