Eco bricks

I am struggling a lot to reduce the amount of plastic packaging we use but it is my focus for the new year. We started filling ecobricks late last year and

A beautiful Eco-Brick house built in eNkanini by Dr Trevor Davies is making waves for its sustainable approach and possible solution to affordable and eco-friendly housing.

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.

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 […]

What are eco bricks? These innovative new resusable building blocks have been everywhere recently and we have been finding out a bit more and making some.

This DIY yarn tassel is the perfect outdoor craft when it's beautiful outside, and also a pretty terrific indoor craft when outside sucks.

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 […]

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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!