Posted on 06/09/2017 3:01:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bin designer Angus Carnie, 35, used his contacts in waste management to collect tonnes of rubbish and turn them into building materials
A designer has created his own house for just £15,000 - out of recycled McDonalds food wrappers and plastic bottles.
Bin designer Angus Carnie, 35, used his contacts in waste management to collect tonnes of rubbish and turn them into building materials.
For £15,000 he managed to build a two-bedroom detached house in just seven months.
The house features faux wooden logs made from compressed plastic and breeze blocks made from discarded hospital bedding.
The property is also solar and wind-powered, and his water supply comes from 90-litre tub on his roof which is filtered as it goes through to his taps.
Angus Carnie has built his own home out of recycled fast food wrappers (Photo: SWNS.com)
The self-confessed dumpster diver's home near Dundee is so eco-friendly it is exempt from council tax, saving him ever more cash.
Thrifty Angus came up with the idea when a brain tumour - which turned out to be benign - put him out of work.
He said: "I looked at all of my costs and housing was the easily the biggest.
"I started to wonder how I could use my waste knowledge and put it to good use.
"People said I'd never manage it and people thought I was bonkers, but I said: 'I'll manage - I'm Scottish'.
"The house is totally sustainable. I create my own electricity. When I'm watching TV at night I use little pedals to generate electricity.
"I then bank it all into four batteries and that keeps me going."
Angus decided to change the way he was living when he collapsed and woke to find doctors telling him that he had a brain seizure.
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Maybe somethings are best left a mystery.
I agree. This guy has a brain.
I like Tiny House Nation. The buyers are looney but the builder are amazingly creative and brilliant.
You should try to get them in the next Wonder Woman sequel, killer biskets...
This guy is a certified genius, and I’m not kidding.
yes. people can live quite nicely in very small spaces if the spaces are designed intelligently for that purpose
BUT
the problem is then the municipal infrastructure and public services of your community, after 100,000 tiny houses or trailers move in
the sewers, roads, highways, traffic lights, parks, libraries, police and fire...etv and so forth...all are not able to handle large scale additional loads or taxing of their facilities and staffing
your quality of life goes down the toilet
"He said: "Having my licence taken from me got me thinking about how you can get about, because public transport is just so rubbish."
I wanted to post on this thread earlier but I had to pedal up a little more juice for my wi-fi
Man Builds Own Home for £15K -
I wanted to post on this thread earlier but I had to pedal up a little more juice for my Wi-Fi
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Your wifi made From McDonald’s Wrappers and Plastic Bottles?
It’s sure fun to shoot arrows at the Pioneers isn’t it?
I know I know the world would be a better place if McDonald’s had never invented fast food
I would no more put discarded hospital bedding into a house than I would put plague coffins into the structure.
as a pioneer, mcD was pretty close (not quite the first)
and of course became the biggest
but since their burgers cause me INSTANT barf attacks, terrible heaving...it has all the earmarks of an allergic reaction to some kind of chemical additive(s)...
but anyway....you understand that
i cannot be expected to extol their ‘virtue’ as an ‘edible’ product
obviously there are lots of other folks who can digest them, so they can have mine. smile smile smile smile smile
Wow. Not a fan of his interior design scheme, but I’d never guess it was made from recyclables. Good for him!
McDonald’s causes you gastric problems, and so you accuse them of putting dangerous deadly chemicals in their food. Thanks, I was wondering where that part ‘charity’ came from in your name
there have been numerous articles over the years about McD’s chemical additives
you can easily sift thru them anytime you wish
I am not gonna say I like McD’s
some folks still do, FINE!
I am also not gonna try to convince you that you should switch to another brand. Its entirely up to you. I switched and am super=happy at 5 guys and also like In and Out and also can eat some more brands just fine. That’s the end of my hamburger situation, I follow the burger joints as a matter of business studies...and its a very interesting industry. But, I like 5guys’ product (and the others), not McD. sorry. end of file.
I see you are afraid to respond to my charges head on.
Who is asking you to like McDonald’s? Not me.
I don’t like McDonald’s either but I don’t go around spreading false stories about them and you shouldn’t either
About once a year, I get a craving for a big Mac. I’m always sorry afterwards.
They put the sauce on with a trowel, so I always order it on the side. (The kid usually gets it wrong and slathers it on, plus gives me about 1/4 cup of the stuff on the side). Anyway, I scrape most of it off, which is not a good idea, because the sauce hides the chemical taste of preservatives, or whatever they put on the lettuce, and the steamed meat taste of the burger. Of course, there’s always the fries to look forward to...what kind of nasty oil IS that they fry them in?
Oh, well. I always know in my heart of hearts what I’m going to get. I always tell myself, “This time, it’ll taste good!”
mcD changed its fry recipe oil and as you might expect a whole lot of people hate the new fries
(inevitable?)
the 5guys fries are good (but overpriced)
There’s a full moon out tonight, isn’t there?
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