Eco bricks

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

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.

Prevent your un-recyclable plastics from ending up in the landfills and oceans. Making your own eco brick will turn all of that waste into something new!

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