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 metric ton of inorganic garbage, an accomplishment that owes its success to community participation and the cooperation of many organizations.
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Cambridge. MA, Estados Unidos : Harvard University.
2016-03-09T17:49:22Z
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| Subjects: | DESECHOS, ADMINISTRACIÓN DE DESPERDICIOS, RECICLAJE, UTILIZACIÓN DE DESECHOS, ARQUITECTURA, EDIFICIOS DE BIBLIOTECA, ECO - LADRILLOS, PERÚ, COMUNIDADES CAMPESINAS, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10469/8103 |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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