8. Making “eco-bricks”
Bottles Trash
• Clean & dry
• Inorganic and non toxic
• Everybody (children and parents)
participates in stuffing bottles full of
trash to make “eco-bricks”
• 600ml bottles
(A community in El Salvador is
experimenting with 1.5 litre bottles)
• Undamaged with tops
24. Open Source: Bottle School Manual
• An online guide to enable anyone to build a
bottle school
• An open-source “wiki” - anybody can
use, modify and add to it
• www.bottleschools.org/wiki
28. Impacto Educacional
Educational impact
No school /Not enough space: Generations growing
up with no education
Bottle School: A
modern, secure
durable, weatherproof
Temporary school: A wooden shack with classroom
dirt floors. No light, no sanitation, no
electricity, no ventilation.
