Wholly unique home made from recycled plastic bottles

Architectures made an innovative house in rural Nova Scotia that looks like it might be made of wood. But the structure is unremarkable, wholly unique made from over 600,000 recycled plastic bottles.

Wholly unique home made from recycled plastic bottles

The material is called PET (polyethylene terephthalate) foam, and the first step to creating it is heating shredded plastic to form tiny plastic pellets.

“All of these pellets go into big vats, and it goes into a building the size of Walmart,” JD Composites co-owner Joel German told. “Four guys operate this plant and they dump it into a hopper. It gets mixed with gases. It melts it down and makes it come out in a foam, like shaving cream it expands on the way out.”

Once cool, the foam is incredibly durable, so it made the perfect building material for the green home plastic bottles, which the team plans to list on Airbnb if it doesn’t sell.

“The house is rot resistant, mildew resistant, termite resistant in warmer climates,” Saulnier told Hants. “It’s just an efficient, structurally insulated panel made with green material.”

“There are four major companies building this material in the world,” company co-owner David Saulnier told “and they’ve told me that we’re the only people, on planet Earth, that have done this so far.”