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Indian Company Announces Innovative Affordable Eco Houses Made From Recycled Plastic
eco friendly house project
A
new social start-up aims to transform housing in India and beyond,
beginning in 2018, simultaneously solving a massively growing housing
problem, while ridding the environment of countless tons of menacing
discarded plastic.
Major
metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru
and Kolkata generate about 10 million tons of garbage every day. But the
problem is not the enormous amount of waste generation, but how we
treat it.Gaias Homes, based in Hyderabad, uses a
proprietary technology to construct modular homes, schools, community
centers and shelters ranging from 25 to 200 square meters, comprised of
materials made from recycled plastic. The Eco houses are not only
affordable but can be constructed by non-skilled workers in two to five
days. Homes start at $3,250, are earthquake proof, and are estimated to
last up to 500 years due to the nature of the plastic based material.The
different house offers have a variety of options including size, number
of floors, type of roof and solar panels, to mention a few. Ordering is
simple and straightforward and is even available online through the
Companies website. The Eco houses flat roofs are said to be even strong
enough to grow lush gardens on top.Turning plastic
waste in high quality homes, this technology solves obviously some of
the major crises of society and the environment.The
recycled materials required to build a single 50 square meter home will
extract and re-purpose three tons of plastic from the environment. India
alone produces enough garbage to fill three million garbage trucks.
End-to-end. That many trucks would reach halfway to the moon. - EVERY
DAY - Over 5 trillion pieces of plastic contaminate the world's oceans,
and of that, some 270,000 tons float to the surface while four billion
plastic microfibers per square kilometer litter the ocean's deep. To say
that plastic contamination is a massive global problem would be a gross
understatement. In India, 70-percent of all collected urban waste ends
up in landfills, which are already way over their capacity. Gaias Homes
will certainly not be without construction materials for a long time to
come.The Company has visions of aggressively helping
solve India's poverty and housing crisis. In spite of an 8-percent
growth rate over the last four years, approximately 100 million people
still live in India's slums, that is 8-percent of the population."If
we used all the plastic waste produced in India, in only seven years we
would be able to house all people living below the poverty line in this
country, and could continue keeping up with all future demand after
that - but even with only a part of that amount we could erase the major
slums in India in the upcoming years completely" said Steven Bo Rausch,
Founder of Gaias Homes.Even before sales have
begun, the company earmarked twenty-percent of all profits for social
and environmental charities befitting - education, reforestation,
healthcare, sanitation, housing, waste management and more. Aiming also
to work with, or next to the Indian government on its "Homes For
Everyone" program - Gaias Homes is not at all a regular company -
setting itself huge goals."This is where our
real passion lies," Co-Founder Mani Deep Reddy said, "we see an enormous
opportunity to not only make a huge impact in people's lives but to
help on broader scales beyond the construction materials we will use in
these homes. Yes, we will run a profitable business, but this is about
so much more than that. This is about making a contribution to society."The
Company already has Ambassadors covering Singapore, Portugal, Spain,
the United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada and more, and plans to rapidly
expand the concept throughout Asia."We
understand the enormity and necessity of this project, and our team
feels we are up to the task and we are driven every day by knowing the
impact we can make, not only in India but around the world," Rausch
added.Gaias Homes is completing its first
round of funding and plans to scale operations to at least 1800 Eco
homes in the first year, re-purposing some 7200 tons of garbage plastic.
The Company expects to triple those numbers in 2019.About Gaias HomesGaias
Homes is a privately held for-profit company with a strong social,
environmental and humanitarian background, based in Hyderabad,
Telangana, India. Founded by Mani Deep Reddy, Jahnavi Jakkampudi and
Steven Bo Rausch, Gaias Homes is committed to spreading the social and
environmental message that something can be done about the horrific
plastic problem existing in landfills and oceans around the world.
Through its proprietary manufacturing process, the Company constructs
affordable and durable homes while removing a substantial amount of
plastic waste from the environment.Website: https://gaiashomes.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Gaiashomes/
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