Eight million tons of plastic bottles are estimated to be polluting our oceans annually, making them one of the things that has had the most influence on our ecosystem.
According to estimates, Nigeria produces 2.5 million tons of plastic garbage annually, largely due to the fact that many homes don't have drinkable water.
However, there is an environmentally acceptable option to repurpose the bottles besides drinking out of them: building houses.
Additionally, they build incredibly strong homes that are reportedly both bulletproof and earthquake-resistant.
The first mentions of sustainable construction date back to 2011 and more have been constructed in the years since.
Each house is estimated to require 14,000 bottles, yet even with thousands of plastic components required, it is still approximately 67 percent less expensive than using more conventional building materials.
Sand is placed inside plastic bottles, which are stacked on top of one another and fastened together with twine to construct the dwelling.
Some claim that the homes are so solid that they can endure 300 years, and it is said that filling them with sand makes them even stronger.
Then, builders add mud to fill in the spaces and finish the wall.
Yahaya Ahmed of Nigeria’s Development Association for Renewable Energies told the BBC back in 2011: "Compacted sand inside a bottle is nearly 20 times stronger than bricks."We are even intending to build a three-story building."
In addition to saving thousands of plastic bottles from the ocean and our streets, it also creates jobs for people, especially for young men.
"I don't want to be a beggar, I want to work and get paid - that is why I am doing this job," then-15-year-old Shehu Usman told the news outlet. He also mentioned his dream of using plastic bottles to construct his own house.
Many people currently consider it of utmost importance to remove trash from our oceans because of worries that microplastics may cause "plastic rainfall."
In order to better understand the movement of airborne microplastics (AMPs), a team of researchers from Waseda University in Japan recently collected cloud water from Mount Fuji's top.
Nine distinct polymer kinds and one type of rubber were found in the airborne microplastic particles when the water was analyzed.
