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Nigerian Engineer Builds 3-Bedroom House With 14,800 Plastic Bottles

by ReportersAtLarge
October 22, 2022
in Breaking Bones, Featured
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Yahaya Ahmed Builds 3-Bedroom House Plastic Bottles

Yahaya Ahmed standing outside his newly built plastic house

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Nigerian engineer Yahaya Ahmed built a house in Kaduna using 14,800 sand-filled plastic bottles as bricks.

Premium Times reports that Ahmed is the director of the Developmental Association of Renewable Energies in Nigeria (DARE), a non-governmental organisation.

Yahaya Ahmed, an engineer and the director of a non-governmental organisation, the Developmental Association of Renewable Energies in Nigeria (DARE), said the house was built by his organisation to encourage the recycling of waste materials, create jobs, and ensure a safer environment in Nigeria.

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Yahaya Ahmed Builds 3-Bedroom House with Plastic Bottles
Yahaya Ahmed

Mr Ahmed said workers filled the plastic bottles with sand and linked them at the neck by an intricate network of strings to build the house, which he said is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa.

“It’s the cheapest house that everyone can construct without spending much money because the building materials are available on the streets and trash dump centres,” he told journalists at the site located at unguwar-Yalwa on the Kaduna Zaria road.

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The house has three rooms, a toilet, and a kitchen.

He said it is “20 times stronger than brick-walled houses and can last for over 300 years if constructed properly and carefully. It is fireproof, bulletproof, and earthquake-resistant and can adapt to climate changes, desertification, and deforestation.

“It is the cheapest house to build in this generation, with waste plastic bottles on the streets polluting our environment and causing more problems like floods and other disasters in the communities.”

Mr Ahmed explained the house’s shape, saying bottle houses are often more convenient to build circularly. “The circular shape adds strength to the walls while providing a very artistic and pleasing appearance.

sand-filled plastic bottles used as bricks
Sand filled plastic bottles used as bricks

“Any person with masonry skills can be used as labour in constructing one of these homes. We have trained many youths and are still training more youth and adults on the various ways of constructing these houses across the country and some parts of Africa.”

On the motivation for the initiative, Mr Ahmed said, “We want to reduce the volume of plastic that is polluting our environment and causing diseases and other disasters.”

He called for the training of more Nigerians to build plastic bottle houses.
“We have plastic houses in some parts of Africa, but this is the first one in the entire region of black Africa.

“Our joy is to train more youth in the skills of this kind of housing to save our streets from the plastic bottles dominating our rivers and ponds, causing floods and other disasters.”

Speaking on the occasion, the Assistant Director of African Climate Reporters, Piman Hoffman, urged the government to support renewable energy companies “to save the nation from the increasing threat of waste pollution through waste management plans.”

Mr Hoffman said, “Billions of plastic water and beverage bottles are discarded every year, with most making their way to landfills, the ocean, or, in poorer countries, disposed of in heaps.”

“It is really high time to encourage Nigerian engineers to embrace technology in constructing more houses that can withstand all ecological challenges.”

He noted that “plastics are a big threat to the existence of humans, animals, and all living organisms.” He said more aquatic animals are now endangered due to the “irrational activities of dumping plastic bottles into rivers and streams.”

“We must join hands toward saving aquatic animals from the threat of plastic pollution,” Mr Hoffman said.

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  1. John Le Fevre says:
    2 years ago

    For a story like this you use two photos – one the size of a postage stamp. #Fail

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  2. Shomek says:
    2 years ago

    Good.

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