When plastic bags and pet bottles are being banned worldwide, here is the organisation in India which promotes it for a cause – building homes with pet bottles! Samarpan Foundation, a non-governmental and non-profit organization, has set out an agenda to build ‘green house’ with pet bottles. “What we are setting out to do is to build an entire house with PET bottles at our forest nursery site in Chennai which will consume approximately one lakh bottles.
This is to demonstrate to the people of Chennai and world at large that though PET bottles are considered a ‘necessary’ evil, they can be put to good use,” says Romaine San Francesco, project coordinator.
Explaining the reason for using PET bottles which are considered to be a threat to environment due to its non-bio-degradable nature, Romaine said, “The reason PET bottles are a menace is because of their longevity. We at Samarpan have taken the extreme native aspect of a PET bottle, ie. Its longevity and converted into positive. We have already built a room out of such bottles in one of our schools in New Delhi.”
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