Hug It Forward’s New House Made of Plastic Bottles Clears Another Community of Trash

The 7th completed school has a bamboo roof!

The wire is attached to steel framing and then covered over with concrete

The bottles are stuffed with the other plastic and then enmeshed in chicken wire

Plastic bottles and other trash are collected for months

Communities throughout South America, including las Mananitas in Guatemala, are empowered to building their own "bottle schools"

But they also promote learning

Hug It Forward spreads love and hugs just for the sake of it

<a href="http://www.hugitforward.com/pages/show?id=41">Hug It Forward</a>, a non profit organization that spreads hugs and love simply for the sake of goodness, has already helped build ten new schools for communities throughout South America in order to promote learning. This one in Las Mananitas on Guatemala's Pacific Coast is their seventh. In addition to providing a much needed space for kids to learn in, each school also displaces up to 5,000 plastic bottles and 2,053 pounds of trash!