Indian Company Announces Innovative Affordable Eco Houses Made From Recycled Plastic
A new social start-up aims to transform housing in India and beyond, beginning in 2018, simultaneously solving a massively growing housing problem, while ridding the environment of countless tons of menacing discarded plastic.
Major metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Kolkata generte about 10 million tons of garbage every day. But the problem is not the enormous amount of waste generation, but how we treat it.
Gaias Homes, based in Hyderabad, uses a proprietary technology to construct modular homes, schools, community centers and shelters ranging from 25 to 200 square meters, comprised of materials made from recycled plastic. The Eco houses are not only affordable but can be constructed by non-skilled workers in two to five days. Homes start at $3,250, are earthquake proof, and are estimated to last up to 500 years due to the nature of the plastic based material.
The different house offers have a variety of options including size, number of floors, type of roof and solar panels, to mention a few. Ordering is simple and straightforward and is even available online through the Companies website. The Eco houses flat roofs are said to be even strong enough to grow lush gardens on top.
Turning plastic waste in high quality homes, this technology solves obviously some of the major crises of society and the environment.
The recycled materials required to build a single 50 square meter home will extract and re-purpose three tons of plastic from the environment. India alone produces enough garbage to fill three million garbage trucks. End-to-end. That many trucks would reach halfway to the moon. - EVERY DAY - Over 5 trillion pieces of plastic contaminate the world’s oceans, and of that, some 270,000 tons float to the surface while four billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer litter the ocean’s deep. To say that plastic contamination is a massive global problem would be a gross understatement. In India, 70-percent of all collected urban waste ends up in landfills, which are already way over their capacity. Gaias Homes will certainly not be without construction materials for a long time to come.
The Company has visions of aggressively helping solve India’s poverty and housing crisis. In spite of an 8-percent growth rate over the last four years, approximately 100 million people still live in India’s slums, that is 8-percent of the population.
“If we used all the plastic waste produced in India, in only seven years we would be able to house all people living below the poverty line in this country, and could continue keeping up with all future demand after that – but even with only a part of that amount we could erase the major slums in India in the upcoming years completely” said Steven Bo Rausch, Founder of Gaias Homes.
Even before sales have begun, the company earmarked twenty-percent of all profits for social and environmental charities befitting – education, reforestation, healthcare, sanitation, housing, waste management and more. Aiming also to work with, or next to the Indian government on its “Homes For Everyone” program – Gaias Homes is not at all a regular company – setting itself huge goals.
“This is where our real passion lies,” Co-Founder Mani Deep Reddy said, “we see an enormous opportunity to not only make a huge impact in people’s lives but to help on broader scales beyond the construction materials we will use in these homes. Yes, we will run a profitable business, but this is about so much more than that. This is about making a contribution to society.”
The Company already has Ambassadors covering Singapore, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada and more, and plans to rapidly expand the concept throughout Asia.
“We understand the enormity and necessity of this project, and our team feels we are up to the task and we are driven every day by knowing the impact we can make, not only in India but around the world,” Rausch added.
Gaias Homes is completing its first round of funding and plans to scale operations to at least 1800 Eco homes in the first year, re-purposing some 7200 tons of garbage plastic. The Company expects to triple those numbers in 2019.
About Gaias Homes
Gaias Homes is a privately held for-profit company with a strong social, environmental and humanitarian background, based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Founded by Mani Deep Reddy, Jahnavi Jakkampudi and Steven Bo Rausch, Gaias Homes is committed to spreading the social and environmental message that something can be done about the horrific plastic problem existing in landfills and oceans around the world. Through its proprietary manufacturing process, the Company constructs affordable and durable homes while removing a substantial amount of plastic waste from the environment.
Website: https://gaiashomes.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Gaiashomes/
Contact:
Steven Bo Rausch
Mani Deep Reddy
Source: Gaias Homes, Pvt LTD