From Canada to Colombia to Ivory Coast, people are converting plastic waste into building materials and using it ... use of plastic waste,” The roof, walls and floor of the plastic beach house ...

Kutner had read about communities elsewhere in Latin America using plastic bottles stuffed with compacted trash as building material. Perhaps, Kutner thought, the rest of the schoolhouse wall ...

Scientists in India have proposed to use solar modules at the end of their lifecycle as a building material ... panels is much lower when compared to that of conventional 250 mm thick brick walls.