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A House Built from Bottles

Two college students develop an idea that could solve two of the world's major problems: a lack of affordable housing and an overabundance of plastic bottles

People around the world guzzle about 50 billion gallons of bottled water a year, and then toss billions of those plastic bottles into the trash heap instead of the recycling bin. Matt Naples and Peter Zummo think they can take this lemon of a fact and turn it into lemonade—or rather, take those discarded water bottles and turn them into chairs, shelves, or houses for the worlds poor.

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