A 35 year old woman, Alexandra Posada has made houses with old tires in Colombia.Alexandra Posada is a environmental activist and sports a cowboy hat and jeans.She is working on various houses in the mountains of Choachi.She made bricks from old tires that weigh about 200 to 300 kilograms a brick.
"I get these tires for free because it's a huge problem for people to get rid of them," she told AFP."They take thousands of years to decompose—which we've transformed from a problem into an opportunity," she said. "If you use them as construction materials, they become virtually eternal bricks."
She used different kind of tires in large chimney to make round structures that is work as a insulator and resist anainst the earthquakes.She and her team uses round cement and steel ceiling over the kitchen and bedrooms.They utilized wood ceiling over the living and dining room.Then rooms are covered by tire layers.She used vertically glass bottles in the ceiling to let in skylights.She build the roofs, walls, terraces of "igloos" from 9000 old tires.
"These houses are made with reused materials, but they're also beautiful, airy, with more indirect light," she said.
According to the offical figures more than 5.3 million tires are throwing out by colombians in a year which pollute the environment.Francisco Gomez, who heads the environment ministry's response to the issue said, "it's a huge problem in terms of the public space, the environment and the landscape."In Colombia importers and manufacturers are needed 35% tires of the country's total to recycle.
William Clavijo who is working with her, a 57 year old mason, said the job has taught him a lesson in "valuing things.""People usually just throw this stuff away. Now you see that it can be put to good use," he said as he slapped layers of mortar across a wall of tires, hiding its past as rubbery waste abandoned on the streets of Bogota.
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