- A trail-brazing Nigerian engineer, Yahaya Ahmed, has used plastic bottles to build a house with three bedrooms, a toilet and a kitchen - Ahmed said the house is 20 times stronger than houses built with brick walls and can last up to 300 years - The engineer said he was motivated to come up with housing initiative in a bid to reduce the volume of plastic polluting the environment Yahaya Ahmed, a Nigerian engineer, has built a house in Kaduna using 14,800 sand-filled plastic bottles as bricks. Premium Times reports that Ahmed is the director of a non-governmental organisation, Developmental Association of Renewable Energies in Nigeria (DARE). Comte design gathers that the engineer said the house was built by his organisation to encourage recycling of waste materials, create jobs and ensure a safer environment in Nigeria. Meet young woman Jumoke Dada who is promoting African culture with her afro-urban furniture How the house was built Explaining the process of building the house, Ahmed...
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