Hyderabad Company Uses 1,000 Discarded Plastic Bottles To Build The First Recycled Bus Shelter

When it comes to environmental pollution, disposed plastic bottles are a huge menace. Thousands of plastic both disposed of in the landfills where they sit for years without degrading. But to every problem there's solution, while many simply drop them in dustbins, there are those who take an extra effort to do something innovative.?

Instead of discarding used plastic water bottles, a Hyderabad-based social enterprise called Bamboo House India has built an entire bus stop using 1,000 bottles.?

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A bus stop in Swaroopnagar colony in Hyderabad has been made from recycled plastic bottles and bamboo shoots. The construction was taken up by Bamboo House India under their ‘Recycle India’ initiative.

It took 15 days to build the 8-foot-high bus stop, with a metal frame and over 1,000 plastic bottles bought from a scrap dealer.

Bamboo House India, started by an entrepreneur couple Aruna and Prashant Lingam, provides sustainable livelihood opportunities to rural and tribal communities.?

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"Around 1,000 regular, one-litre plastic drinking water bottles were purchased from a scrap dealer in Bhoiguda, at Rs 1.40 per bottle. The bottles were drilled, and a rope ran through them. The frame is made of metal, but even the roofing has been made of the pep bottles,” S. Jattaian, one of the artisans told the Deccan Chronicle.

Bamboo House India, started by an entrepreneur couple Aruna and Prashant Lingam, provides sustainable livelihood opportunities to rural and tribal communities.?

"We have attested-done 150 projects in 4 to 5 years. We are getting good response from the market. A very good thing about this is that it generates employment from rural area to urban area," Prashant told ANI.