The cost of building a house is usually too high for the ordinary Ghanaian. This is mainly due to the high cost of building materials, labour, expertise and duration taken to fully accomplish a housing project. 

PlastyHouse is a startup in the construction industry which aims at making housing in Ghana easy for the middle-income Ghanaian to afford. As a result, the company seeks to bring out a novel system of housing which is geared towards effective utilization of plastic waste and other waste available in the environment to create eco-friendly housing blocks, roofing tiles, ceiling tiles and pavement blocks.

As a startup, their way of combating this is the provision affordable and different variations of blocks to meet diversified needs. The blocks come in various plastic percentages and material composition making them comparatively cheap, easy for construction and also very durable as well.