We came up with a substitute of plywood and made a plastic plank which is made from "milk packets" and can be used for making furniture, toilets, benches and bus shelters," Lingam told ANI."Lingam has been getting support from the Telangana government and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for his work.

The entrepreneur couple Prashant Lingam and his wife Aruna, who have a decade-long experience in designing houses and bamboo furniture, decided to use recycled waste for their work after they saw a video in 2017 of a bull being operated to remove plastic from its stomach. The infrastructural need of the country is increasing enormously so we thought of building a house with plastic only.While a concrete wholesale PE shrink films house could cost a minimum of Rs 40 lakh, a plastic house costs only Rs 700 per square feet, said Lingam.

There are alternatives available in jute, bamboo and cotton," he added. Other states will also impose ban including Telangana. "It is a wonderful invention and we cannot live without plastic."We got scared after watching that video. end-of Tags: hyderabad, plastic waste, telangana government, narendra modi Location: India, Telangana. We have heard that there will be a ban on single-use plastic by 2020 or 2021," he said.

The actual problem is littering of plastic and the way we misuse it," he said."Eleven states in India have already imposed a full or partial ban on plastic. It is as good as any other regular brick and mortar house," Lingam said.The entrepreneur said that they have also constructed footpath tiles from the hard plastic-like toothbrush, buckets, mugs and other hard plastic articles.(Photo: ANI)The first house Lingam built in HyderabadUppal was of about 800 square feet.Lingam said that people should avoid using plastic bags for every other need, stop using small sachets of shampoo and start buying sustainable materials.(Photo: ANI)The entrepreneur further said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his Independence Day speech, has also called for putting an end to single-use plastic. We should look for alternatives for plastic.Hyderabad: A Hyderabad-based couple has taken up the initiative of constructing houses and other structures using sheets made of processed plastic waste.

Thus, it can last for 30 - 40 years. It was constructed using 7 tonnes of plastic.Lingam, however, said that plastic is not a bad material. One is by cutting down the use of plastic and the second by reusing it," he added. There are apprehensions among people who are new to the concept of living in a plastic house."Some schools have asked us to build benches for them," he said. However, implementation is not so easy in our country. "We can contribute to 'plastic-free society' in two best ways. Moreover, he added, "The plastic house is water, fire and heat resistant."We as citizens of the country have to do something."That much plastic was saved from being incinerated, it was used to construct a new house. But there is nothing to worry about. Then we started researching on the subject