Last updated: 7 september, 2010 - 09:18 GMT

Bottle bricks

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In Kayunga in eastern Uganda residents can now boast of streets clear of used plastic water bottles - thanks to an innovation that has turned them into building materials for houses.

BBC Focus on Africa's Joshua Mmali visited the project in Kayunga about 70 kilometres east of Kampala.

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