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...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.flacsoandes.edu.ec:10469/8103 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10469/8103 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | DESECHOS ADMINISTRACIÓN DE DESPERDICIOS RECICLAJE UTILIZACIÓN DE DESECHOS ARQUITECTURA EDIFICIOS DE BIBLIOTECA ECO - LADRILLOS PERÚ COMUNIDADES CAMPESINAS |
| Sumario: | 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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