In addition to being able to build walls using bottles of plastic Sand full, there is a somewhat more sophisticated solution, but even more Ecologicalif possible, since it is not required of cement, in addition to allowing the use of many other types of plastics.
From bags to bottles of all kinds, water jackets … any type of plastic container can become an ideal raw material for the manufacture of peculiar bricks thanks to an invention of the Neozyre Peter Lewis, creator of a machine that transforms waste of Packaging in bricks Ready for use in construction.
Build walls with waste
Although it seems, it is not a real -size LEGO construction, but an authentic alternative to conventional bricks for the construction of ecological houses. Basically it is about Build walls with wastean idea that may seem somewhat crazy, but that ceases to be when the Lewis project is known.
For about ten years, this New Zealander does not stop fighting to carry out his project, consisting of the manufacture of the machine and, of course, also seeing which is the best mode of waste collection to do to do Ecological bricks After recycling on that machine.
What is the invention?
The machine It has been baptized as “Byfusion“And it is enough and it is left over to transform waste into brick through its chopping and compaction, adopting the brick shape.
A machine that can recycle all kinds of plastic following a series of steps, to finally compress the plastic paste and thus produce a 10 kilograms brick.
The machine manages to create a brick every 40 seconds, that is, 150 blocks per hour that, as can be seen in the video, are fitted through metal guides in which they can easily gain to go to go Raising walls.
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantage of these bricks of plastic It is that they provide good heat and sound insulation, in addition to being especially economic, in addition to the environmental benefits pointed out.
On the other hand, durability may not be a problem, since being manufactured with plastic it takes to degrade decades and even hundreds of years. Its duration for building homes could be similar to that of bricks conventional Or, in any case, the construction would be standing for numerous generations.
As an inconvenience, the problem is none other than to base its raw material on a product that should be called to disappear. It is not yet more than evident, and in fact the problem of plastic waste is a real environmental drama, but a low carbon society must find ecological alternatives.
While they are, yes, this system is a real jewel, especially considering that no matter how much the use of the plasticboth today and in the medium and long term we will find plastic everywhere.
However, in ideal terms, to which we must tend, we must recognize that it would be wonderful that this machine was not necessary because, simply, the plastic would have ceased to be an environmental problem because of its lower use.
On the other hand, aesthetics can be a problem for housing construction. Everything is going to taste, it is true, and the fashions can be unexpected and even be a trend an aesthetic like this, but we must recognize the one that results does not agree with conventional aesthetics.
Perhaps that is why it is difficult to imagine the construction of a house with these bricks. Or may not, because in turn the market devours the new proposals, while the aesthetics against other values can be secondary such as the need for a home at an economic price and/or environmental care.
At the origin of the idea we find the reason for this peculiar aesthetics. According to Peter Lewis, the project arose from the need that it detected at the environmental level, with the intention of finding practical use in needs other than the construction of a house.
Basically, I thought about its use for the construction of walls that allowed to separate agricultural plots, garages. He also considered the possibility of being used to help in emergency situations.
From rebuilding places that have suffered the onslaught of forces of nature as earthquakes, storms or similar to the construction of temporary shelters that help to have a roof to survivors.
Above all, it would be a great help in places where there were little wood or other materials available for the reconstruction of whole houses, neighborhoods or villages. Nothing prevents, that yes, that it can be used for other purposes, without the need for any urgency.
A solution for two problems
It is an idea with a double environmental interest. On the one hand, the contamination of plastic waste in the world is a tremendous problem, which may well be classified as environmental catastrophe, and on the other hand we avoid the use of conventional construction materials, equally polluting.
Both from the point of view of pollution and impact of the environment and with regard to its carbon footprint. Not surprisingly, the construction represents a good part of the nefarious effect emissions greenhouse.
The project is going ahead thanks to a subsidy of $ 20,000 of the New Zealand government, and is starting to work in Dunedin, its city, located in the Bay of Otago. Its virality, finally, is taking it to the four corners of the planet.
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