SBS Dateline | Renewable Home

‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ as they say… and no one believes that more than Luiz and Edna Toledo in Brazil.

Their house is literally made of rubbish, and at a fraction of the cost of a normal building.

Dateline’s Giovana Vitola gets a guided tour of the bottle walls, bamboo roof, floors made from marble waste…and their unique take on interior design.

It’s not the first recycled house the Toledos have built and they have plans for a whole condominium development.

WATCH - See this fascinating insight into extreme recycling.

EXTRA - Find out about other recycled and environmentally-friendly houses around the world.

RECIPE - Get the recipe for the banana skin cake, cooked by Edna Toledo in Giovana's report.

INTERVIEW - Giovana talks to SBS's Portuguese language radio service about the story.