How To Turn Drink Packs Into Homes
Happy Feel Good Friday! Today we look at The CAREton Project, a beverage carton recycling campaign that aims to put roofs over 5 families through EPIC Homes. Will you be part of it?
By Melody Oei — 23 Aug 2013, 02:53 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
Did you know that beverage cartons can be recycled into roofing sheets?
"Flip-Flat-Flat and you could help give a family a literal roof over their heads! That’s right, the CAREton project is back, and this time we need your help to put roofs over the heads of those who need it." Photo from Tetra Pak Malaysia.
Image via imgur.comDo you have a drink pack? The CAREton project needs 1.65 million of them
This is why you should seriously start recycling your used paper cartons. Through the CARETON PROJECT, EPIC HOMES Together with TETRAPAK and NESTLE will be on a mission to collect 1.65 million cartons in the next 4 months. These cartons will be upcycled into roofs for 5 families. Now, by building homes, you can also save the environment!!!
Image via akamaihd.netWHAT YOU CAN DO: "Recycle your used paper cartons. Through the CAREton Project, EPIC Homes together with Tetra Pak & Nestle will be on a mission to collect 1.65 million cartons," says Epic co-founder John-Son Oei.
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The CAREton Project is a beverage carton recycling campaign that aims to put roofs over 5 families
CAREton Project, Tetra Pak Malaysia & Nestlé aims to collect over 1.65 million used beverage cartons to be recycled into roofing tiles; they will be used by EPIC Homes to construct 5 homes for Orang Asli families in need.
The CAREton Project 2013 is the fourth one of Nestle Malaysia and Tetra Pak Malaysia; with support from partners like Publika Shopping Gallery and AEON Co. (M) Bhd, the Taiwan Bhuddist Tzu-Chi Foundation Malaysia & 300 public schools nationwide.
EPIC builds homes, not just houses
EPIC Homes focuses on building relationships between the urban and rural divide through the activity of building homes for underprivileged Malaysian communities.
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Whether it's building a home or starting a fundraising campaign, you can contribute to EPIC
You can also build a home yourself by hosting a private build. In order to do so, a participant fee would be required on top of the basic fee of a home. This fee is dependant on the area of location of the build. If you’d like to get in touch and build a home yourself, let us know and e-mail [email protected].
Image via imgur.comYou can raise funds for families and donate the proceeds to the EPIC Homes cause. Run a marathon, pledge your birthday, start a lemonade stand - have fun while doing good and make a difference in the life of another.
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You can even fund an entire home or become a partner. If you'd like to share resources or have other ideas on how to collaborate, EPIC encourages you to drop a note at [email protected].
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What's so epic about EPIC? Can I be EPIC too?
EPIC uses the ever ready available volunteer power of the youths to help erect houses for Orang Asli.
1mdb.com.my"We want to make servitude fun and easy for everyone. We created a system that is easy enough for unskilled people to come together over a weekend to build a home."
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EPIC builder Giles Gibbins shares his experience on the GE & AirAsia Build, "Each build has its own challenges to overcome."
"The group that came along that weekend was a wide mix of cultures from two separate companies, yet there were no boundaries. Corporate, non-corporate, GE, Air Asia, mature, young, different races, different religions: everyone shared this experience together."
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"Over the next two days I witnessed more of this passion as,everyone had to work extra hard to get the home finished in time. But at the end of the third day, as the sun was setting, the house was finished."
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"While it is usual for us to dig different sized footing holes because of a gently sloped site, this was no gentle slope. The drop over the site was almost 2 meters; meaning that at one end the structure team had to dig holes over a meter deep, and at the other they had to make mounds of dirt on which to place the foundations."
Image via akamaihd.net"I was in the wall team...when we had finished our initial cutting and were ready to commence work on the house, there was no structure on which to commence work!"
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"Each build has it’s own challenges to overcome as well. I was in the wall team, and on the first day we were meant to spend the morning cutting out material and the afternoon constructing. When we had finished our initial cutting and were ready to commence work on the house, there was no structure on which to commence work!"
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"My team was under the impression that they had worked very hard on that first day. I’m sure once they talked to the structure team they would’ve realised what an easy day they had!"
Image via akamaihd.net"The group that came along that weekend was a wide mix of cultures from 2 separate companies - corporate, non-corporate, GE, Air Asia, mature, young - everyone shared this experience together."
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