A Beverage to Build Houses
We would like to take a moment to thank the Coca-Cola Corporation for all material support they have provided during our renovation.
Coco-Cola is the drink behind the man. Our workers valiantly empty gallons of Coke into their bodies every day so as to provide us with free building materials.
The empty bottles are refilled with water that are carried around the site to wash walls, thin concrete, etc. - all in neat two-liter increments. Cut in half, the bottles provide impromtu pails for mixing paint or for plugging up holes. This free product from Coke has literally saved us hundreds of pesos on buckets, tape and the like.
For the last few months, empties have piled up faster than they can be used. Their torn wrappers, waving brightly in the breeze like papel picado, lifted our spirits among all that drab concrete.
A few days back, however, things were different. Every little pile had been rounded up, cut into strips and dropped into the newly formed septic tank. Sitting in the last of three chambers, the plastic will knit together to form a floating barrier atop the greywater. Any unwanted solids beneath will thus be prevented from rising up and escaping down the outlet (pictured top left) and onwards into the well.
Coca-Cola makes their plastic bottles tough and we’re thrilled that this free building material will provide us hundreds of years of worry free operation. Keeping us cool. Building houses. Thanks Coca-Cola!
