Water Bottles: Eco-Village In Panama, By Derek Markham

What to do with all these water bottles! Humans are slowly killing the planet! Pollution of the planet is not a new concept, humans having been trying to figure out how to combat this problem. Unfortunately it is not fully working, so instead individuals have come up with ways to repurpose pollution. One such item would be water bottles. In this synthesis of sources different people have took a crack at helping the environment in their own way. In two articles, “Eco-village in Panama” written by Derek Markham and “Bulletproof, fireproof, environmentally friendly homes are being made from plastic bottles” by Jessica Parker, both these authors look into how homes are being made from water bottles. In Markham’s article looks at how a whole “eco-community” (pg.1), is planned to be made out of recycled water bottles. But in Parker’s article she look at how walls and houses are made from water bottles to address the homeless problem in Nigeria. Outside of the similarity of that both projects use water bottles it show the different methods used to construct the walls. In Panama they use metal fencing and stuff water bottles inside it to make it weather proof, where in Nigeria they use local recourse, dirt, to fill the bottles and pack them in together. A similarity also in these two articles is the amount of water …show more content…
One example of this is the story on page 19 where: “one researcher in Texas has witnessed seabirds attempting to eat protection rings probably mistaken for food.” (pg.19). Many of these articles also come up with ways that its readers can help cut back on