In order to make sense of the whole plastic garbage madness, Robert Bezeau developed a method on Bocas del Toro in Panama to build houses out of empty plastic bottles. His goal is a village that consists of houses built in this way. He argues that houses built this way could do without air conditioning and would be more earthquake-resistant than houses built there conventionally. I'm currently not sure to what extent this handling of it could change the plastic garbage madness in the long term. He may only postpone the problem by a few decades, but at least the bottles used for it don't end up in the sea for the time being. So far, Bezeau has collected over a million bottles for his project - and the first interested parties who want to move into a house in this village are probably already there ...
After collecting more than a million plastic bottles, Robert Bezeau made an unconventional decision - to build an entire village out of plastic bottles. One study has found that there could be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050, so essentially anything else is preferable, no matter how out of the ordinary. For this one we traveled to the island of Bocas Del Toro in Panama to meet the young couple about to move into their first plastic bottle home.