Eco bricks

Students from the University of Medellín have received a patent to help accelerate a recycling program that creates eco-bricks. And the goal? To enable families with limited resources to build homes. Two students, along with three professors, have been working on the environmental project for more than two years, and it was only after confirmation […]

Plastic bottles are the biggest enemy of our environment, as they will practically remain there forever once thrown out. The US is among the world’s largest

Eco bricks

Ecobricks teaches people how to make reusable building blocks by packing soft plastic garbage into plastic bottles. The building blocks can be used for buildings, walls, or modular furniture. The group says ecobricks offer a zero-cost solution to the problem of widespread plastics pollution.

From upcycled school benches in India to plant pots in Peru, people are finding enterprising and ingenious solutions to a perennial problem

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 […]

Joburg gets very own EcoBrick bench thanks to 370kgs of collected plastic

Collective cries of despair rang out across Aotearoa in December last year as diligent recyclers heard the news that NZ's Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme was being abruptly brought to a halt. The Packaging Forum (who ran the scheme) announced that "changes to global recycling have meant that we're now collecting more than we can currently process in New Zealand".

Ecobrickers in Bloemfontein, South Africa have made their own couch! That’s right, using nothing but plastic “waste” and bottles, members of the Boitekong Protective Workshop, made this super funky (and surprisingly comfortable) centerpiece to their QPT Qala Phelang Tala main office. Led by Vuyane Phaliso and Anita Venter, the creation is getting lots of use… and […]