In 2010, Taiwan turned 1.5 million discarded PET bottles into Taipei’s EcoARK; the $4.22 million exhibition hall stood 26 metres high and resisted storms

Taiwan opened a 26-metre-high exhibition hall in Taipei in 2010 whose walls were made from plastic bottles.The structure was called EcoARK, used about 1.5 million recycled PET bottles and was designed to withstand storms, earthquakes and fire. The project was created by architect and structural engineer Arthur Huang and his company, Miniwiz, for the Taipei International Flora Exposition. Contemporary reports estimated the cost at about NT$133 million, or roughly $4.22 million at the time. The three-storey exhibition hall stretched about 130 metres and was built from interlocking blocks made from recycled plastic.

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