Children in a (plastic) bottle

Every hour 250.000 empty plastic bottles are dumped, that's almost 2.200 billion bottles a year! Many get recycled, but still plenty end up in the ocean causing the enormous islands of debris, (see my post on 12st August, Islands in the stream) or creating plastic mountains on land. 

So what an outstanding initiative from the Charity organisation Hug It Forward to build schools using old platsic bottles. A great way of recycling the bottles and creating new schools for less priviledged children. Already 12 new bottle schools have been completed and another 4 are in progress. Watch the video to see how they do it! Or even better: go on a "Bottle school voluntourism trip to Guatemala" and build a school yourself!

   

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Blog post Island in the stream