Plastic bottle greenhouses and houses

[lored]

I didn't know where to post this, so I put it here. There isn't a section for homebuilt stuff. Keeping plastic bottles out of landfills could be considered ecological.

I was rather surprised at the number of things they are building with plastic bottles.


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I know every workplace has the recycling bins, this would be a cheap method of building a greenhouse.

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Plastic bottle houses

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LoreD

[Good Mind Seeds]

my concern would be with the plastics as they are exposed to weathering from sun and rain. would the plastics decompose into more toxic forms and runoff into the soil and water? i am going to make a space for homemade DIY stuff.

[lored]

I don't thiink plastic breaks down that quickly. I was watching a commercial about reducing our use of plastics and they said that a plastic water bottle starts to break down in a landfill after about 150 years.

Lored

[Good Mind Seeds]

the UV created molecules that come from degraded plastics are not "broken down" like what you refer to but they have changed into thousands of more toxic forms of those plastics and many times they come off in particulates invisible to the eye. i choose to avoid sunlit plastics whenever possible because of this.

[bunkie]

i don't have enough bandwidth here to watch all the youtubes, but just the other day, i was refilling my red plastic hummingbird feeder and it broke and collapes into pieces. it got very little morning sun only and was about maaybe 3 yeaars old. it's same material i think as a plstic bottle. infact you cn replaace it with a plastic bottle. i was shocked!

i've also noteed that the plastic bottles i sometimes wintersow in break up quite easily after a couple years, as do the cottage cjeese and sour cream containers. very discouraging. i'm trying to switch everything over to glass now.