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Tires, 2-liter soda bottles, pallets, even glass bottles can be re-purposed as construction materials for sustainable homes.

Even stripping milk cartons for the HDPE to use as shingles or Siding is practical. Same goes for the 2-liters, though...

With the 2-liter soda bottles, they can be filled with dry sand and used as masonry blocks. They have fantastic insulating value and make sturdy walls.

And rammed-earth in old tires is the founding basis of Earthship construction.

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