Trash into Treasure: Building Up by Throwing Out in Chongoyape, Peru

In a town in northern Peru, a community has stuffed trash into 7,000 half-liter plastic bottles, also known as eco-bricks, and built a library. The town has no sanitary landfill and little knowledge of trash management. Yet residents have managed to create Peru’s first eco-brick building out of one...

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Main Author: Montalvo, Tina (author)
Other Authors: Martín, Charles (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10469/8103
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