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IndianCompany Announces Innovative Affordable Eco Houses Made FromRecycled Plastic
A new social start-up aims to transform housing in India and beyond, beginning in 2018, simultaneously solving a massively growing housing problem, while ridding the environment of countless tons of menacing discarded plastic.
Major metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Kolkata generate about 10 million tons of garbage every day. But the problem is not the enormous amount of waste generation, but how we treat it.
Gaias Homes, based in Hyderabad, uses a proprietary technology to construct modular homes, schools, community centers and shelters ranging from 25 to 200 square meters, comprised of materials made from recycled plastic. The Eco houses are not only affordable but can be constructed by non-skilled workers in two to five days. Homes start at $3,250, are earthquake proof, and are estimated to last up to 500 years due to the nature of the plastic based material.
The different house offers have a variety of options including size, number of floors, type of roof and solar panels, to mention a few. Ordering is simple and straightforward and is even available online through the Companies website. The Eco houses flat roofs are said to be even strong enough to grow lush gardens on top.
Turning plastic waste in high quality homes, this technology solves obviously some of the major crises of society and the environment.
The recycled materials required to build a single 50 square meter home will extract and re-purpose three tons of plastic from the environment. India alone produces enough garbage to fill three million garbage trucks. End-to-end. That many trucks would reach halfway to the moon. - EVERY DAY - Over 5 trillion pieces of plastic contaminate the world’s oceans, and of that, some 270,000 tons float to the surface while four billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer litter the ocean’s deep. To say that plastic contamination is a massive global problem would be a gross understatement. In India, 70-percent of all collected urban waste ends up in landfills, which are already way over their capacity. Gaias Homes will certainly not be without construction materials for a long time to come.