Construction industry is a major contributor to pollution, which is a concerning problem all around the world. In recent years, there have been various developments like recycled plastic bricks and RePlast blocks made from ocean waste, that provide some relief to the degrading environment, but we need to do a lot more. #recycle #bricks #gogreen #environment

Back in February, I contributed a story about ecobricks to Cosmopolitan Philippines. By the time my article was published, I was deeply invested in this environmental movement. My mother was amused at the shelf dedicated to my ecobricks at home, and how I would rummage through our trash bins to collect plastic waste, clean them, and turn them into ecobricks. An ecobrick is a plastic bottle fully stuffed with dry plastic waste, such as candy wrappers, food foil packs, shampoo […]

Plastic Brick Compressor: Background This is my IB HL Design Technology major project. It is a product that takes plastic waste and transforms it into bricks. This product was specifically designed for rural (developing areas) environments and as such, requires no electrici…

the silica plastic blocks or SPBs were found to have 2.5 times the strength of normal red clay bricks.

Gjenge Makers pavers cost just 83 cents a square foot

Bottle bricks are a way of both accepting the reality of plastic waste, and also using the physical fact of that waste for a specific purpose.

A Kenyan materials engineer has found a way to recycle plastic waste and turn it into bricks that are stronger than concrete.