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Garbage Warrior
2007 · Film · documentary · 86 min
Directed by Oliver Hodge
Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing. An extraordinary tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world. Written by The Works International
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There's a decent film [1] documenting their origin and architect Mike Reynolds.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_Warrior
The architect behind "earthships"[1] made a similar observation regarding used tires -- finding it was the most readily available resource pretty much anywhere. Fill a tire with packed sand, and you have a very good brick, making a wall that has excellent properties wrt heat (either keeping it in, or out).
You can also use regular bottles for construction[2]: you need to cut them in two, and fit them together, and layer them into clay/concrete/etc -- and you have again a wall that lets in light, and has good isolation properties (due to the air pockets in the empty bottles).
I recommend watching "Garbage Warrior" for more on real-world sustainable eco-housing:
http://www.garbagewarrior.com/
[1] http://earthship.com/Designs/simple-survival
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_wall
For those that think this is cool, checkout Garbage Warrior[1]. It's a documentary about a man building sustainable houses out of old tires, plastic & glass bottles, and the like. It's like startups meets home building!
[1]http://www.garbagewarrior.com/