Yesterday we started to assemble our greenhouse here at South America Snow Sessions. The hotel we're staying at has been collecting bottles for a few months now and we have some of the local restaurants and bars doing the same. When it's all said and done we will have used 1,500 plastic soda bottles to complete the project which we'll be leaving behind at a local school in Bariloche.
We started off by removing the wrapping on the bottles and taking the caps off. Then we cut the bottoms of the bottles off and started stringing them like beads to the bamboo shoots. Bamboo grows in abundance in Bariloche so we have plenty of raw material to work with.
The picture above is what we're going for. Hopefully it will catch on down here and people will be able to grow their own food rather than importing fruits and vegetables. We are planning to leave it at a local school and talk to them about growing food and sustainability. It's a sweet project down here because they don't have much of a recycling program going on. Looking forward to the outcome! I'll keep you posted along the way.