I don't care for that word.

FTA

""My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos"

Is it wrong that I laughed at that? They have a shortage of sand in Africa? Quick, better get ready to sell the Eskimos ice too!

fark Nigerian scammers

/PLASTIC PARKING LOT

There's a lesson here for westerners, "Americans", etc

Nobody will learn it

/bad mood

User42: FTA

""My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos"

Is it wrong that I laughed at that? They have a shortage of sand in Africa? Quick, better get ready to sell the Eskimos ice too!

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Yes, yes they do. It is a huge problem in many parts of the world.

FTA This "bottle brick" technology started nine years ago in India, South and Central America, providing a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional building bricks.

I find it hard to see that using plastic bottles instead of bricks is more environmentally friendly. Those same bottles could be recycled to make bottles. Instead new bottles will have to be manufactured to replace them.

Does manufacturing bricks really produce more pollution than manufacturing plastic bottles. And wouldn't bricks be considered biodegradable?

jingks: And wouldn't bricks be considered biodegradable?

Upon further thought, I suppose ceramics wouldn't be considered "biodegradable".

Bricks also don't degrade when exposed to UV rays. I'm curious to know that those houses in India look like after nine years of exposure.

To the other poster, Google "sand mining" and "sand mining Africa".

Hello, I am doctor Zafira Obodo.



Send monies!

david_gaithersburg: User42: FTA

""My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos"

Is it wrong that I laughed at that? They have a shortage of sand in Africa? Quick, better get ready to sell the Eskimos ice too!

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Yes, yes they do. It is a huge problem in many parts of the world.

Hey, I know a place where they can get some:



If they need directions, I can provide a map.

User42: FTA

""My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos"



Maybe they should quit complaining and move where the sand is.

GREETINGS HONOURABLE SIR
I am Sodienye Popoola IV, son of deposed plastic bottle magnate Sodienye Popoola III. I have in possession 2.3 million plastic bottles in need to convey outside Nigeria. A mutual acquaintance advised you could trusted with greatest discretion to aid in transfering these to appropriate sorting and recycling centers abroad...

User42: FTA

""My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos"

Is it wrong that I laughed at that? They have a shortage of sand in Africa? Quick, better get ready to sell the Eskimos ice too!

He's a mason. His actual fear is that people could build for themselves.

Sure he uses sand, and there are grades of sand, and he may have really tight budgeting issues that mean a few pennies per ton of sand would jack him up; but he contradicts himself with his assertion that people are just digging it up all over. Either he buys his sand which is graded and sifted and therefor not the same shiat getting dug up, or he's also digging up sand all over the place in which case he's no more entitled to random earth digging than anyone else.

Saw a video recently for another use of the plastic bottle in the Phillipines.

Cut a hole in the roof of your shanty, no-electricity darkened hut. Fill a plastic bottle with water. Stick the bottle into the hole and let the sun outside do its magic and turn the bottle of water into an illuminating light source.

Farking awesome.

/Plastic bottles, what can't it do?
//disintegrate

Somehow, this article led to me stumbling upon Nigeria's Global News (new window) which appears to be THE BEST farkING NEWS SOURCE EVER.



Reckless Lifestyle of D'banj +How he Sold His Soul To Join Secret Cult -His Dressing, Necklace Are Key Signs Of The Cult (new window)

Funky Pastor With Fake Miracles, Chris Oyakhilome Solemnises Mercy Johnson's Dubious Wedding (new window)

...The news first with us, indeed! It's like having Simon Adebisi read you the Weekly World News.

david_gaithersburg: Bricks also don't degrade when exposed to UV rays.

Exactly.

They better paint or otherwise protect the bottles or that house is gonna leak sand one day.

Plant Rights Activist: User42: FTA

""My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos"



Maybe they should quit complaining and move where the sand is.



Frowns on your shenanigans.

bulletproof

O RLY

Public Savant: david_gaithersburg: Bricks also don't degrade when exposed to UV rays.

Exactly.

They better paint or otherwise protect the bottles or that house is gonna leak sand one day.

Too much derp for one day.

"My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos

"At the moment people looking for sand to build houses dig everywhere to get the sand. You can imagine what will happen when the demand for sand goes up to build bottle houses."

Mumuni my man, you are showing more than an unseemly bit of self interest there. It's very unattractive.

Also-according to a former accomplice of mine, Lagos is/was hell on earth. Lots of wryly ironic and vicious stories regarding it.

Plant Rights Activist: User42: FTA

""My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos"



Maybe they should quit complaining and move where the sand is.

They aren't all sand-nig...s

"My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand,"

So the world is just hell-bent on keeping Saudi Arabia rich and powerful then?

GungFu: Saw a video recently for another use of the plastic bottle in the Phillipines.

Cut a hole in the roof of your shanty, no-electricity darkened hut. Fill a plastic bottle with water. Stick the bottle into the hole and let the sun outside do its magic and turn the bottle of water into an illuminating light source.

Farking awesome.

/Plastic bottles, what can't it do?
//disintegrate

Fun fact: The date on gallon water bottles - the kind you stock up on for natural disasters - is how long the company guarantees the bottle before it might start to leak due to disintegration.

/True story.
//Not defending plastic bottles at all, ever.
///If you have these set aside, as we do, you might want to check the dates, because they will leak and screw up your old entertainment center you use for storing things in the garage.

jingks: FTA This "bottle brick" technology started nine years ago in India, South and Central America, providing a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional building bricks.

I find it hard to see that using plastic bottles instead of bricks is more environmentally friendly. Those same bottles could be recycled to make bottles. Instead new bottles will have to be manufactured to replace them.

Does manufacturing bricks really produce more pollution than manufacturing plastic bottles. And wouldn't bricks be considered biodegradable?

Don't let them fool you. Plastic bottles are mostly virgin resin. I've worked in a few plants for different companies and have seen very little post-consumer regrind introduced into the process. Most PCR is used to make clothes or carpet or building materials or whatever but very little of it goes back into bottles. The place I work at now uses zero PCR and we crank out about 750,000 PET bottles every 24 hrs. The last place I worked did about 4.4MM and used almost no PCR.

pinchpoint: jingks: FTA This "bottle brick" technology started nine years ago in India, South and Central America, providing a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional building bricks.

I find it hard to see that using plastic bottles instead of bricks is more environmentally friendly. Those same bottles could be recycled to make bottles. Instead new bottles will have to be manufactured to replace them.

Does manufacturing bricks really produce more pollution than manufacturing plastic bottles. And wouldn't bricks be considered biodegradable?

Don't let them fool you. Plastic bottles are mostly virgin resin. I've worked in a few plants for different companies and have seen very little post-consumer regrind introduced into the process. Most PCR is used to make clothes or carpet or building materials or whatever but very little of it goes back into bottles. The place I work at now uses zero PCR and we crank out about 750,000 PET bottles every 24 hrs. The last place I worked did about 4.4MM and used almost no PCR.

In Germany they also sell soda and other soft drinks in a harder plastic bottle where the entire bottle itself is actually reusable.

Is it better? From a very long term economic view yes, but I don't know the energy cost of making one of these things and cleaning it out for reuse.

/but the lemon Fanta tastes good!
//mmmm real sugar

Came looking for the unrelated but amusing pic of the protester with the bread helmet.

""My fear is that this building method will increase the demand for sand and even lead to an increase in the price of sand," says Mumuni Oladele, a mason in the southern city of Lagos"

Lucky bastard. I've always wanted to live in the city of Legos. Didn't know they were made of sand, though.

Send this guy and his SackMaster over there.
Indefinitely.

See how the guy is using a stick to pound the sand into the bottle? It's a form of construction known as "packed earth". I used to work for an Italian builder who was born and raised in Libya (Italian colony) and he explained some methods used for that. You build a form and fill it with dirt. Then you pound it over and over until it becomes almost solid and hollow sounding. No mortar or anything.

jingks: I find it hard to see that using plastic bottles instead of bricks is more environmentally friendly. Those same bottles could be recycled to make bottles. Instead new bottles will have to be manufactured to replace them.

Plastic does not recycle anywhere near 1:1. For example, 1 aluminum can will recycle into almost 1 aluminum can. But a plastic bottle would not recycle into anything close to a single a bottle. Too much is lost in the process.

ExtremeHobo: jingks: I find it hard to see that using plastic bottles instead of bricks is more environmentally friendly. Those same bottles could be recycled to make bottles. Instead new bottles will have to be manufactured to replace them.

Plastic does not recycle anywhere near 1:1. For example, 1 aluminum can will recycle into almost 1 aluminum can. But a plastic bottle would not recycle into anything close to a single a bottle. Too much is lost in the process.

Energy cost too. Direct recycling is absolutely preferred.