**n-Profit Turns Discarded Soda Bottles Into Thatch Roofing
 

**n-Profit Turns Discarded Soda Bottles Into Thatch Roofing
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Perhaps the iconic image of developing-world poverty is a small collection of huts with thatched roofs. Unfortunately for those living in such places, these roofs are terrible.*They leak and, when water-logged, often collapse. The grasses used to fabricate them are becoming scarcer. Insects and other undesirable critters*live in them.*People moving out of poverty quickly*ditch thatch, upgrading to materials such as corrugated tin.

Corrugated tin roofs are waterproof but have serious downsides. They trap heat, and though a super hot home may be less miserable than getting rained on, it is nevertheless is unpleasant. When it rains, the **ise can be so deafening it drowns out everything. Read more...

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