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The Ocean Cleanup and others are making a huge effort to collect plastic, but are often dumbfounded about what to do with it afterwards because it’s unsorted, degraded and dirty.
At the same time, 1.6 billion people are lacking adequate housing, which doesn’t include the growing number of people every year being displaced due to natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes.
Precious Plastic’s brick, which uses 1.5 kilos (3.3 lbs) of plastic waste and takes about 4 mins to produce, addresses both these challenges.
Companies like Conceptos Plasticos and ByFusion also make recycled plastic building bricks, but their designs and machinery are proprietary.
Precious Plastic instead created a “how-to” tutorial for making the brick that uses our open source machinery already operated by more than 400 independent Precious Plastic projects around the world.
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