{"id":5648,"date":"2024-03-21T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2024-03-21T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:51:19","slug":"is-trash-the-building-material-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/is-trash-the-building-material-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trash The Building Material of The Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>TLDR<\/strong>: Entrepreneurs globally turn waste into building materials, offering cheaper, durable alternatives like plastic bricks but face challenges with microplastics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article is a summary of a You Tube video &#8220;Is Trash The Building Material of The Future? &#8221; by Business Insider<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pWpH9R-yY4c?si=9-IspuX1kbcHcMnT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Innovative Use of Waste<\/strong>: Entrepreneurs worldwide are transforming waste into building materials by grinding, melting, and molding it into bricks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recycled Bricks Applications<\/strong>: These bricks are used for paving roads, padding playgrounds, and constructing homes and schools.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenya&#8217;s Initiative<\/strong>: In Nairobi, a company called Jeng Maker, founded in 2018, processes single-use plastics to create durable plastic bricks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Environmental Impact<\/strong>: Despite the potential to reduce waste, concerns arise about increasing microplastics in the environment due to abrasion from use in construction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic Viability<\/strong>: Recycled plastic bricks offer a cheaper alternative to conventional materials, being approximately 25% less expensive than concrete bricks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Interest<\/strong>: The concept of turning waste into building materials has gained international attention, indicating a global problem with local solutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Challenges in Recycling<\/strong>: High temperatures (300 to 400\u00b0C) are required to mix plastics and sand, highlighting the energy-intensive process of recycling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Potential for Expansion<\/strong>: Entrepreneurs see significant untapped potential in this technology, indicating room for growth and optimization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diverse Products<\/strong>: Companies are expanding their product lines beyond bricks to include manhole covers, roofing tiles, and drainage gutters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sustainability and Profitability<\/strong>: Initiatives like turning seaweed into bricks and recycling tires into durable pavers demonstrate the possibility of sustainable business models in waste management.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneurs globally turn waste into building materials, offering cheaper, durable alternatives like plastic bricks but face challenges with microplastics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-43","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}