HE built a house with more than 8,000 recycled glass bottles in the Brazilian island of Itamaracánorth of the state of Pernambucoa. Edna and María Gabriely Dantas They were the creators and decided to act in front of the tons of waste, especially glass bottles, abandoned after the high seasons. The house is located within an environmental protection area marked by virgin beaches, biodiversity and a growing mass tourism that has left tons of waste.
Edna, the 55 -year -old mother and socio -environmental educator born in the Brazilian rugged, grew up in a family that practiced reuse out of necessity and consciousness: “My childhood was marked by creativity.
“I want to build a house with glass bottles”the mother thought during the pandemic. This is how the project was born Salt housean ecological house made with materials discarded by others: reused wood, toothpaste tubes converted into tiles and bottles.
That passion was instilled in her daughter María Gabriely, a 27 -year -old sustainable fashion designer. Both share one Cultural inheritance Quilombola and indigenous, maintaining a strong spiritual connection with nature.
How is the house built with 8,000 recycled bottles
Salt house has Seven rooms, accurately assembled glass walls, partitions made with recycled pallets and even tiles made of toothpaste tubes. The first quarter, of 20 square meters, worked as a sewing workshop while the work took shape.
“The first year and a half was pure ingenuity: Without conventional bathroom, washing dishes in a palangana. But we never lost sight of our vision, ”Gabriely said. Brazil is a country with 5.8 million homeless people or living in conditions of extreme poverty, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
During the construction of the house they have witnessed the level of machismo present in the industry. “We wanted to hire labor for specific tasks, but They always wanted to comment, correct, tell us how to do things. As if we lack capacity, ”said Gabriely.
“People believe that one day we find a magical bottle with a genius inside. They do not recognize that this requires technique, management, vision. And being a woman in this environment is doubly difficult, ”he added
“Black women in Brazil can take up to 7 generations184 years, in buying a house that is worth about 70 thousand reais (€ 11,025), ”both explained in their Instagram account. In this way, in addition to the machismo prevailing in society,“ racism and its environmental and ecological cut, it is only the inhuman monster that is, because because Until today there has been a historical repair project ”they affirmed mother and daughter.
Source: Ambito
