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Mobile Medicine: Shipping Container Benefits and Medical Applications
While there are only so many brick-and-mortar hospitals and treatment centers available, sometimes it’s necessary to find creative ways to provide critical care when and where it’s needed. One trend that has emerged in the past few years – and even more recently with the COVID-19 pandemic – is converting shipping containers into “pop-up” medical treatment or storage facilities. -
Portable Shipping Container Hospitals and Clinics Come to You
Imagine living in a third world country where getting to anything that resembles civilization can take hours or days to reach. Or if a major earthquake, hurricane, or tornado has affected the area you live in and rendered your local hospitals and clinics useless. Every human being should have access to quality health and dental care and immediate attention, and that’s where portable clinics assembled with shipping containers come into play.
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Students Turn Shipping Container into Plastic Recycling Center
High school students in Kelowna, British Columbia decided to make a plastic recycling plant as a school project, and they did it in a shipping container. The plant, named Operation Take Two, is run by student volunteers. -
Shipping Containers Find Popularity as Worst-Case Scenario Bunkers
Underground bunkers are considered to be the safest survival option in the case of most fathomed attacks or disasters, and preppers are finding that shipping containers fill the need quite well. -
Shipping Containers Bring Clean Water and Power to Those in Need
Containers can do more than just shipping. Reused and recycled shipping containers are currently being outfitted with solar panels and water treatment and purification systems by an innovative company called OffGridBox. These incredible shipping containers are used to help NGOs, schools, hospitals, businesses, and homeowners around the world become sustainable and resilient.
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Survival Shelters Made of Shipping Containers
The durability of shipping containers makes them a great choice for a survival shelter. They can be easily customized to fit whatever you are looking for in a bunker or fallout shelter, and they are much more affordable than shelters made from more traditional materials, like concrete.
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Tiny Shipping Container Clinics Offer Disaster Relief Services
With roadblocks and rural areas with no nearby hospitals, many civilians are left with no options for medical treatment and don’t know where to turn in the event of a natural disaster. These tiny shipping container clinics hope to solve that problem.
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Environmental Benefits of Used Shipping Containers
It is well documented that shipping containers are durable, weather resistant, and transportable, giving them impressive versatility. However, did you know that shipping containers are being utilized by different groups to help the environment?
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College Students Use Shipping Containers to Help Refugees
With more refugees today than ever before, and exceedingly more expected in the coming years, the need for quick housing options is a necessity. A group of Undergraduate students have developed a way to not only build these facilities quickly but also save tens of thousands of dollars as well, using shipping containers.
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Shipping Container Homes for the Homeless
With a name like, the Cottages at Hickory Crossing, it sounds like something you might find in a nice suburban neighborhood. But the Cottages at Hickory Crossing are not out in suburbia. They are, instead, an experimental group of 50 micro-houses for the chronically homeless.
