Innovative reuse of materials.
We should do more of this. Repurposing save the energy used in mining.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/shipping-container-hotel-open-for-business-in-bruderheim-1.3915218
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Totally agreed! Shipping containers are so much more versatile and they can be moved if needed. I'd love to one day own a cottage which is nothing but a bunch of containers strategically configured.
ReplyDeleteAt the PNE one year we say a beautiful converted Sea Can home. We currently plan to retire to the Fraser Valley but you never know - it may be easier to go off grid than we think between composting toilets and affordable solar. A Sea Can or two could be perfect:)
ReplyDeleteThe bankruptcy of Hanjin left 15,000 unused shipping containers stuck in Ontario, California. People are trying to figure out what to do with them:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailybulletin.com/business/20161024/the-shipping-containers-are-here-and-ontario-is-going-to-court-to-kick-them-out
Why not places for the homeless?
ReplyDeleteCass Morrison - it's been discussed; people say it's not so easy to make a shipping container into a tolerable dwelling. I don't know.
ReplyDeleteI saw a show where someone made a dumpster into a living space!?!? and Sea Cans aren't that different than ATCO trailers. They would need insulation mostly.
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