Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Building eco-friendly homes with plastics

He is a man with difference. When the whole world is up against usage of plastics, he has different philosophy for using plastics. He says plastics can be useful to man if one puts his mind into it. He has developed a concept to use plastic pet bottles as brick to build houses. Waste management is his PET subject. Converting waste items into eco-friendly products is his favourite hobby. 


Meet the founder Chairman Dr. Patrick Sanfranceso of Non Profit Organization Samarpan Foundation who has launched their first pilot project in Chennai where the foundation is constructing a vocational training centre in Red Hills using plastic PET bottles. Excerpts…



Tell us about Samarpan Foundation?

Samarpan foundation was founded in 2006 in Delhi with a sole agenda that ‘whenever there is a need, we should attend to it’.  We started off doing social activities like slum development and child care and later started our own home for needy children. We now have our presence in Kolkata, Chandigarh, Chennai and Bangalore. Over the years, we have diversified our activities to areas involving socio-economic and environmental protection.

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