More and more, home builders are looking into eco-friendly alternatives to the standard way of building homes. One new type of home in Colombia is being made from an unlikely and Earth-friendly building material: coffee. But this doesn’t mean perfectly good coffee beans are going to waste; these homes incorporate coffee husks, a disposable byproduct of the bean, in their building materials. The husks are salvaged after being discarded prior to roasting. The waste material is then combined with recycled plastic to create a durable, more useful material that resembles planks of wood. Envisioned by Bogota-based company, Woodpecker, the modular home construction kits cost as little as $4,500. The brand say that they started developing the building solution a decade ago, Fast Company reported. “We saw that there was a huge necessity for a lightweight construction system for housing and classrooms in rural and isolated places where traditional construction systems cannot go—like bricks, …
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