Kestride Estil’s project Model Dwelling of Recycled Plastic for La Plaine, Haiti has won the 2017 University Research Award for the CDSI. This research focuses on alternative construction methods for Haiti, using recycled plastic as the primary building material. Lacking a formal recycling program, plastic waste is a main cause of Haiti’s environmental problems. Kestride’s project experimented with several approaches to transforming plastic into a suitable building material, ultimately proposing a system of structural walls made of plastic bottles filled with sand and construction debris, with a crude cement mixture as a binder. The construction of a wall mock-up proved that the system could be used as a dwelling prototype. This proposal solves two problems at once: it addresses issues of waste management and at the same time provides dwellings for the poor. The design could have wide applicability in other countries with similar problems.