Yahaya Ahmed says the house was built to encourage recycling of waste materials, create jobs and ensure a safer environment

A Nigerian has built a house in Kaduna using 14,800 sand-filled plastic bottles as bricks.

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

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.

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

He said it is “20 times stronger than brick walls houses and can last for over 300 years if constructed properly and carefully. It is fireproof, bulletproof, earthquake-resistant and can adapt to all kinds of 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 flood and other disasters in the communities.”



sand-filled plastic bottles used as bricks


‘Convenient to build’

Explaining the shape of the house, Mr Ahmed said bottle houses are often more convenient to build in a circular fashion. “The circular shape adds strength to the walls, while providing a very artistic and pleasing appearance.

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

He called for the training of more Nigerians to build plastic bottles houses.


Yahaya Ahmed standing outside his newly built plastic house


“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 the skills of this kind of housing so as to save our streets from the plastic bottles dominating our rivers and ponds, causing flood 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 stand all forms of 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 the river and streams”.

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

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Ok

How did he thought of this idea creative man


In Kaduna
Herdsmen veiwed this post

Amazing...


Yahaya Ahmed , well done...

NCAN no go check the name now...

But if na drug or rituals, dem go run check name...

:-)

UncleHaba22:
What do we call this talent or creativity

Creativity.

You mean that house was made of plastics

nothing we nor go see for naija Sha.

Mine will be made with shipping containers. I designed it myself. Amateur design. As of now I’m the only one that understands the design. Lol.

You mean am . Nupe girls will be awed at this.

It's not new nah... These sahel regions do this alot. I dey see am online

Hmm.. I dont even know what to call this.. rubbish?? Or creativity?

Just a stick of matches everything turn to dust

He tried.

Northerners are very innovative.

Commendable, we need to save our planet.

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Zooposki:
Mine will be made with shipping containers. I designed it myself. Amateur design. As of now I’m the only one that understands the design. Lol.

I don't understand much, but I will think, it's too large for a container house, you may not be comfortable

I would prefer 4 containers max and probably 2 on top

All i can say is.........


I have nothing to say

Good for him

Wow

ITbomb:

I don't understand much, but I will think, it's too large for a container house, you may not be comfortable

I would prefer 4 containers max and probably 2 on top

It’s 3 40 foot containers for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath. Master bedroom and a smaller bedroom. I don’t want the house too big so I can easily clean it myself.

very nice Lalasticlala

theFilmtricsay

Not an eco friendly concept.

Amazing...Yahaya Ahmed , well done...

Wow i will do same next week

I'd love to build a bar in this setting

Zooposki:


It’s 3 40 foot containers for a 2 bedroom, 2 bath. Master bedroom and a smaller bedroom. I don’t want the house too big so I can easily clean it myself. ���

What about heat?

Zooposki:
Mine will be made with shipping containers. I designed it myself. Amateur design. As of now I’m the only one that understands the design. Lol.

you think say u hide the design

I sabi wetin u draw there

REB3L:


What about heat?

You can spray the inside of the container with a foam (can’t remember the name) and then clad it. I will also spray, clad and roof the ceiling and have 4 powerful AC’s running on solar energy 24/7 to keep out the heat. 2 in the morning/afternoon, the other two at night

Zooposki:
Mine will be made with shipping containers. I designed it myself. Amateur design. As of now I’m the only one that understands the design. Lol.

you just made me reminisce of my previous plans of building a mobile portable caravan condor with a container. i still have the drawing on my cloud storage. I wish u well in that.

Ray07:
you think say u hide the design

I sabi wetin u draw there

Lol.