UVa students in Mongolia try to build greenhouse out of Soviet-era vodka bottles | Daily Progress: "It is often said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
For a team of University of Virginia students and their Tibetan and Mongolian partners, discarded Soviet-era vodka bottles have become the beginnings of a greenhouse in central Asia.
The group of students spent a month in Mongolia, a landlocked nation with a population of about 3 million, from May to June last summer using recycled materials to build a structure to improve the area’s agricultural practices.
“[The project] came out of the Development on the Ground course,” said Robert Swap, a research associate professor in UVa’s Department of Environmental Sciences. The course requires students to undertake group projects to practice developing a proposal to meet an expressed need."
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