Waste to Health
Since the world is almost drowning with the weight of plastic waste (Annual consumption of plastic bottles is set to top half a trillion by 2023, far outstripping recycling efforts and jeopardising oceans, coastlines and other environments, the VHF hopes re-direct our energy to using PET to build houses.
A sand-filled bottle makes a great material like a brick; an excellent low cost resource which has insulation properties and a beautiful design feature. PET Bottle can last as long as 300 years (undoubtedly longer than the cement used to bind the bottles together in the walls!).
Community houses can be built using some 8,000 PET bottles, in the process freeing up an estimated 12 cubic meters (m3) in the local landfill.
The VHF Waste To Health project is geared towards reducing the environmental impact of PET plastics by reusing it in constructing rural community recreation centres which would double as a facility for VHF’s revolving rural MNCH and free medical outreach campaigns, addressing health needs in hard to reach areas, child and maternal mortality. .
