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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Tác giả chính: Montalvo, Tina (author)
Tác giả khác: Martín, Charles (author)
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Ngôn ngữ:eng
Được phát hành: 2015
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Truy cập trực tuyến:http://hdl.handle.net/10469/8103
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Tóm tắt: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 metric ton of inorganic garbage, an accomplishment that owes its success to community participation and the cooperation of many organizations.