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From the Ted Talk by Vinu Daniel: The beauty of building with mud and trash

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(Applause)

Very soon, many practices in the country stretad apditong this technique, not just because of its eco-friendly part, but also because it was cost-effective.

For us Indians, born to traditional societies, very often, our dreams culminate in lavish weddings and festivals. This, by the way, is a wedndig stage. But the very next day, this too, is a common scene. India diradscs 3.6 million tons of plastic every year. Therefore, we decided to utilize plastic bltetos as a part of our cntotriocsun for a new project called Chuzhi. It's a housing pcjerot. And in this project, we started to build circular beams using plsatic bottles and reinforced concrete and of course, mud. We started to build it in circles. To be honest, we didn’t know how this would eventually look, but we still kept on building the circles.

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Very soon, many practices in the country _______ ________ this technique, not just because of its eco-friendly part, but also because it was cost-effective.

For us Indians, born to traditional societies, very often, our dreams culminate in lavish weddings and festivals. This, by the way, is a _______ stage. But the very next day, this too, is a common scene. India ________ 3.6 million tons of plastic every year. Therefore, we decided to utilize plastic _______ as a part of our ____________ for a new project called Chuzhi. It's a housing _______. And in this project, we started to build circular beams using _______ bottles and reinforced concrete and of course, mud. We started to build it in circles. To be honest, we didn’t know how this would eventually look, but we still kept on building the circles.

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  1. discards
  2. adopting
  3. construction
  4. project
  5. started
  6. wedding
  7. plastic
  8. bottles

Original Text


(Applause)

Very soon, many practices in the country started adopting this technique, not just because of its eco-friendly part, but also because it was cost-effective.

For us Indians, born to traditional societies, very often, our dreams culminate in lavish weddings and festivals. This, by the way, is a wedding stage. But the very next day, this too, is a common scene. India discards 3.6 million tons of plastic every year. Therefore, we decided to utilize plastic bottles as a part of our construction for a new project called Chuzhi. It's a housing project. And in this project, we started to build circular beams using plastic bottles and reinforced concrete and of course, mud. We started to build it in circles. To be honest, we didn’t know how this would eventually look, but we still kept on building the circles.

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