Doing Your Bit: Nigeria’s houses made from plastic bottles
31 March 2019 |
5:22 am
Not far from the capital Abuja you can find the largest house made from plastic bottles in Africa. Over 200,000 bottles went into creating the construction, making use of the discarded plastic in the country.
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