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Building made from plastic bottles: Raw Video

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A company in Taiwan has built a three-story exhibition hall using 1.5 million plastic bottles instead of bricks to raise interest in recycling, creating what the builder described as a world-first.

The contractor for the building said they got inspired by the waste in their office.

Builders took bottles from Taiwan's waste stream for reprocessing into plastic containers that interlock strongly enough to block the elements and withstand storms or earthquakes.

The pavilion, dubbed the EcoARK, includes an amphitheatre, museum space and a screen of falling water collected during rainy periods for air conditioning. The clear plastic containers in the wall allow natural light to flood the cavernous interior.

After the show, the wall panels will be packed up and reassembled elsewhere, he said.

Outside Taiwan, builders have used recycled bottles to make igloos, greenhouses and even a floating tropical island. Recycled bottles are normally reprocessed into new consumer goods.
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    • Every time I open or reload the news page this thing plays. OVER AND OVER. I can't pause it, turn off the sound or anything! IT WON'T SHUT UP! AAAGH!

      mmm.. fascinating. Teh sun ships ad played, but this time a sound button was visible. I clicked on it and muted the sound, and all of a suddent the play bar with volume control was back on the rest of the videos. Still resets evry time another video plays, so i am now listening to a description of plastic bottles for maybe the 12th time. At least I can keep on shutting it off though, which may save my computer from going through a window.

      I do so so wish current went with the same system as everyone else on the internet and put a play button on those things. It turns the site into a land mine of "oh no, will some idiot video play before I can shut it up?"

      ... and it's gone agian. I'm sorry I can't finish reading current today. It's to damn annoying.

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