{"id":95182,"date":"2019-08-23T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/this-hurricane-proof-house-made-from-612000-recycled-plastic-bottles-can-withstand-326-mph-winds"},"modified":"2019-08-23T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T16:02:50","slug":"this-hurricane-proof-house-made-from-612000-recycled-plastic-bottles-can-withstand-326-mph-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/this-hurricane-proof-house-made-from-612000-recycled-plastic-bottles-can-withstand-326-mph-winds","title":{"rendered":"This Hurricane Proof House Made From 612,000 Recycled Plastic Bottles Can Withstand 326 MPH Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-hurricane-proof-house-made-from-612000-recycled-plastic-bottles-can-withstand-326-mph-winds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking to build a new home on coastal waters where hurricanes are known to roam, you might want to skip the two-by-fours and cement and instead start drinking bottled soda. A Canadian company has recently completed construction of a home with exterior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/plastic-bottle-home-nova-scotia-1.5188749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walls made from recycled plastic<\/a>, and it\u2019s claimed to be able to withstand winds gusting at over 300 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Built by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jdcomposites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JD Composites<\/a>, the three bedroom home is situated near the Meteghan River in Nova Scotia. Aside from a distinct lack of trees, gardens, and neighbors, the house looks like any other dwelling with a clean modern design and a minimalist facade. Inside it\u2019s fully furnished and finished with drywall covered lumber walls, but the exterior is what makes the house appealing as a new, and seemingly much improved, approach to construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re looking to build a new home on coastal waters where hurricanes are known to roam, you might want to skip the two-by-fours and cement and instead start drinking bottled soda. A Canadian company has recently completed construction of a home with exterior walls made from recycled plastic, and it\u2019s claimed to be able [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}