The plastic bricks are particularly good at.
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The company s latest project involves collecting and recycling bottles and various plastic materials to make the eco bricks.
Currently goldstein works with women from around cape town to produce the eco bricks.
The rest ends up in landfills in rivers on beaches and in the ocean.
Because of this a recycling programme is urgently needed.
This upcycling of waste material is cost efficient and reduces the amount of plastic waste that ends up in landfills across south africa.
Plastic waste is ground into small plastic particles that are mixed with a sand and cement mixture to create a durable and water resistant brick.
A twitter user celebrated the enterprising efforts of these young people saying these ladies make bricks that are made from recycled plastic the young ladies employed 15 young other people and created a number of indrt indirect employment by employing a number of waist pickers who they buy plastic from.
Also know as eco bricks eco bricks ecolladrillos and bottle bricks the global ecobrick alliance and wikipedia use ecobrick.
They collect the discarded bottles and plastic separately and have bottle filling sessions once a week.
South africa currently consumes 1 5 million tonnes of plastic annually of which only 21 is recycled.
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This could revolutionise the way we build structures.
Eco brick project empowers women.
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Similarly a new kind of plastic enhanced brick will be used to build houses schools hospitals and roads in cape town south africa while a team of environmentalists in kenya has constructed a boat composed almost entirely of plastic waste to highlight the issue of plastic pollution.
A green business that makes construction bricks from a combination of recycled plastic and limestone is coming to cape town.
To refer to the manual securing of used plastic in a pet bottle also known as plastic sequestration to make a reusable building block.
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Kedibone refilwe tsiloane and kekeletso pulane tsiloane from sasolburg free state are bringing something brand new to south africa a plastic brick.
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Industry commerce retailers and consumers are seeking better ways to work with plastic and.
