Meet Nigerian Who Built Earthquake-Proof House With 14,800 Plastic Bottles

How Yahaya Ahmed’s house, first of its kind in Africa, has turned to a tourist attraction for foreigners, put Yelwa, a small Kaduna village, on the global map, and encouraged recycling of waste materials for a safer environment   What do you do with plastic bottles after you have emptied their content? 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…

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