9/15/2023 0 Comments Plastic cinder blocks![]() ![]() This definitely makes the bricks part of a more sustainable solution. Plastic that used to be valued as trash and would have been trash for hundreds of years is now turned into a simple high-quality product. This leads to the promotion of recycling in the local environment and provides jobs. Lower density plastics are bought from local recyclers. Thus, the plastic bricks provide a use for factory waste and ensures it is recycled. That is what we get,” Matee told Reuters. Gjenge Makers accepts waste that other facilities can not recycle, such as plastic milk and shampoo bottles, sandwich bags, buckets and ropes. “There is that waste they cannot process anymore they cannot recycle. As said earlier the bricks are a mix of sand, higher density plastics, received from factory waste, and lower density plastics, received from other recyclers. This innovation promotes a circular economy and is very much affordable. What aspects makes this an innovation frugal? Mixing of plastics, Source: Gjenge Makers This blog describes why I believe that this innovation could be considered as a frugal innovation. The factory produces around 1500 bricks a day out of a mix of different plastics. Now Matee is the founder of Gjenge Makers, Nairobi, where they produce the plastic bricks. Seeing all the plastic bags everywhere and other plastic waste polluting her country she became both frustrated (as the most of us do) and motivated. Matee is a materials engineer that combined her intellectual knowledge with real world action and delivered a simple and sustainable product. The sand and plastic are mixed at very high temperatures and are then compressed into bricks. The bricks consist of mixture of sand and plastics. Contrary to what you may expect, the plastic bricks are twice as sturdy as concrete, the performance is optimized. ![]() It almost sounds too good to be true, Nzambi Matee from Nairobi, Kenya is the inventor of the plastic brick. A brick, one of the building blocks of society, made from our waste. ![]()
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