Explore the bulletproof house made from plastic bottle – Nigeria.

In the North of Nigeria, the Renewable Energy Development Association of this country built up a house made only from plastic bottles and sand, and has the high capability of resisting bullets attack.

Although the technique of building plastic bottle houses began 9 years ago in India, South America and Middle America, this is the first house made by plastic bottles in Nigeria.

This house is built on the property of a Greek businessman in Yelwa village, Kaduna district, Nigeria. People hired homeless and poor children to stuff sand into bottles and pile these bottles up vertically, and then stick them with mud.

The first plastic bottles house in Nigeria.

This house has a living room, a bedroom, a kitchen, a toilet and a bathroom, the floor is paved with cement, and the walls of the house were built in hoop shape.

To build this house, people used anout 8,000 used plastic bottles.

It is believed that the Nigerian government will build 25 plastic bottle houses in Yelwa village for the residents to rent, making Elwa a tourism village and widespread the way to build these houses. It is also a way to encourage people to protect the environment. The hotels and restaurants are the main sources providing bottles, and the builders are homeless children. These houses has the higher stability and consistency than ones built from bricks; at the same time they can be bulletproof and demand less expenses, only one-third of the ordinary house expenses.

Lots of homeless children are hired to stuff sand into the bottles.

The bottles that contain sand can be twenty times more consistent than bricks. We even want to build 3-floor houses from these bottles”, said an expert of Renewable Energy Development Association.

After finishing 25 plastic bottles houses, this Association will continue to use bottles and sand to build a school for homeless children in Yelwa village.