Just few days back, I came across a fantastic report which should encourage all of us and I wish to share the same with you all...

Timisoara is a city in west Romania which has built a 23-metre (75 feet) bridge made entirely of over 157,000 collected plastic bottles tied together with wires. Recently this bridge is inaugurated and opened for public use.

More than 500 volunteers from the city had collected the disposed plastic bottles for the raw materials to be used for the bridge. The volunteers helped to build the bridge also. This is not the first bridge in the world built from plastic but it is definitely the first made of only plastic bottles tied with wire, and also the first to be made by volunteers. In the US, there are several bridges made of plastic but they are very small. Also in Peeblesshire, Scotland, a 30-metre long bridge made of engineered plastic was built in 2011 over the Tweed river at the Dawyck Estate river crossing.

This is an unique way of utilizing our waste into our day to day use and more importantly, the efforts have come from the volunteers like you, me and all of us who care for the environment...

Ref : http://phys.org/news