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Sustainability - building a building from plastic bottles
3rd May 2010
I showed this to my students today and these hardened Year 13 economists found this idea really cool,.It is a wonderful example of innovation, of sustainability, of design and style. And the creative ideas behind this new building have potentially huge commercial applications. Rubbish bin inspires Taiwan’s plastic bottle building - an example of how investment in sustainable energies and materials can be exported from developing countries to richer developed nations.
Here is the link to the BBC video
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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