How Bricks Are Made From Plastic Trash | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

A company shreds, melts, and molds a secret mixture of hard-to-recycle plastics to make solid bricks and beams. The building materials are cheaper and faster to assemble than most traditional ones. The system has helped increase waste collectors' income and address a shortage of school buildings in Ivory Coast.

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How Bricks Are Made From Plastic Trash | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

[truthkeeperfilms]

That’s absolutely phenomenal. A benefit in almost every way you cut it. Instead of investing in wars and what not, nations should invest in these companies but they won’t because that’s not their agenda.

[freeman]

5:30 So cool, imagine being so game changing that UNICEF reaches out to your company for help. Absolutely great story that benefits so many different people!

[alveres]

I just want to encourage everyone involved, and thank you! Thinkers and do’ers like you are what make me proud to be a human.
That’s sometimes pretty hard these days.
Thank you all and great work!

[fabiojesus]

Other countries could adopt this amazing model! Not only to build schools, but also houses for these people who are in great need.

[DarkGT]

This trash to bricks business seems very common in Africa. It looks like the African nations are more capable of recycling and re-using.

[akdlgsjjslk]

Watching this brought a smile to my face, especially seeing the children smiling and learning in a classroom that’s much cleaner and full of space. I wish this company all the best in providing classrooms for people in need. This could also help with housing problem so that families can live in better homes too. The supply of plastic will not end after all, and once the all schools are built we have to keep reusing the plastic for something. I’m really happy something like this exists for those communities

[arashnikoubashman]

I know there will be many naysayers, but this solution is much better than the status quo, where the garbage is just dumped somewhere or burned

[gmtegirl]

I love stories like this! It's a win, win, win, win, win! And the biggest winners are the little children. How heart warming.

[colinreece]

I clicked on this out of curiosity and i'm glad I did. What you guys are doing is fantastic, I was amazed at the outcome and to do that from waste too. Just think if more countries did this it would make such a big difference, also other things could be made like this, the list is endless.

[thegreencompany]

Great example of sustainability! Amazing to see how waste materials are used as raw material for new products! I really like that❤️🙌🏼

[stagnantfox]

While this is super great, I hope everyone can understand that this doesn't mean that you get to suddenly not have to care about recycling or start littering wherever.

[machivaldemon]

dont comment microplastic please, i know you care but this stuff they do there still helps, a lot.

[JohnSmith-kffc]

Such a great idea and solution for millions of tons of plastic!

[thischannelisbackon]

Provides jobs
Provides industry
Provides waste disposal
Provides help
Provides hope
Very good.

[SexyEarHair]

They could also make some pamphlets or something and distribute them to the households to pre sort some things. That would drastically speed up the sorting process in the factory.

[killaclownz]

Yooo that school house is great, happy to see this level of sustainability through plastics that take lifetimes to decompose.

[jguitar]

Really super◇◇◇◇ Very glad to see this progress but those exposed to dust should wear masks!!!

[williamlloyd]

Amazing adaptive reuse of plastic. Stable, rot and insect resistant, this material makes sense.
PS - Reading recent articles about the USA plastic waste stream, this seems to be a process that shows you the end product instead of some unknown end point

[abpccpba]

Have the bricks been tested for fire hazard?

[Patriotamineiro]

👏👏👏👏👏 Yes, this project is very top. Hope it expands all over the world