Why the world needs recycled plastic bricks (and how to make one yourself!)
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2020
- Plastic waste is a huge problem that needs big solutions!
We think we have an idea of how we can address this plastic waste issue and our founder has just spent the last 6 months at the Precious plastic HQ designing a recycled plastic brick, with the team there, made from 100% plastic waste.
Find out why we made it, how we designed it and how you can get involved.
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Finally my dream of becoming a lego person realized
Everything is Awesooooooome !
@@PaddytotheK everything is cool. ?
Dreams come true if wish enough. 💝
I legit would love to be able to have that setup. I can see that being really popular for animal shelters, kids forts etc it looks like you would need to do something more to make a insolated wall for a house in many areas maybe I'm wrong.
I'm curious about how well it takes nails or screw's to be able to easily hang door's windows put in floors etc if you were to build a house from the plastic.
@@1987Confused It would be possible to fill in some blocks with some material, once in place, to make attaching doors and other load bearing structures more robust. Self tapping screws would work well provided that adequate pilot holes were drilled
My question is, do the bricks lose some strength when heated up by the sun and do they release harmful chemicals like plastic often does when left under the sun for a long time?
IDK about this product specifically, but plastic lasts a very long time as long as it's not exposed to UV light. In the developing world, I would imagine it would be covered with a lime/sand stucco or something like that, similar to adobe-bag homes. I'd also think that the walls could be filled with straw/lime or cob for thermal/sound insulation.
b k Air, is a great insulation stand-alone
@@GrzesiJan yeah we need better r values and thermal conductivity
Paint should fix that issue
from what i see this bricks strong enough to not eroded into microplastics
In a world that performs, and exemplifies CRAFT and INGENUITY, this cannot be IGNORED, it is as sizzling fresh to anyone that is UP for Restoring LIVES, TRANSFORMING the WAY PEOPLE LIVE, as EFFICIENT and as EFFECTIVE, non REVERSE, since it is BRICKED and BRICKS that performs accordingly.
This may look like an oversized Lego brick..... Because it is........
Imagine making shelters for disaster relief using these. The possibilities are endless when it comes to helping others
Sure and then they get hit by another hurricane the a week later finishing them off. It's the durability for me. 😥
I was actually just watching something about a woman who started a company doing this in kenya. Sadly, i can't remember the name of the company/woman.
Edit: it's called Nzambi Matee
Me too!
Me three
There is a man in Ghana too. I just saw his video of him building house made of plastic. Very beautiful and solid.
@@edemanwanakpan4807 what is his name? For research purposes thankss
@@studytime2483 Will check if I saved it in my play list.
*Finally, I can make the Lego Star Wars Ultimate Millennium Falcon set 75192 at full scale.*
Imagine how many molds you have to make
I like the "shingled" design. Especially if the bottom edge is designed to drip water rather than let it run under the bottom of the "brick."
YES I liked them, I dont know why they did not put a flat surface not he front of the brink and a slope on the back - that would still allow them to get them out of the mould and you just need a L shape at the front edge to lip under the next brick above...
Now they have the blueprints to make both! ❤
Fantastic what you guys are achieving, every government in every Country should have a moral right to finding the best way to recycle & reuse plastic. Netherlands are leaps ahead in doing so compared shamefully to Australia, the nation's governments apathy to the problem is deplorable to say the least.
Giant Lego bricks I can see these being a hit for making sheds and other small buildings.
Also imagine making doors the same way, real life lego houses in the future.
@@TheAlmightyToaster01 theres a company in Ireland whose manufacturing method for exterior doors would lend well to this
now imagine a fire starting
Kids: "Dad, can we get the Lego Playhouse set!"
@@AA-yn5nx i mean... no worse than wood.
As an civil engineer, the only thing that I can see as a problem to build codes would be the fire resistance, building materials have to have a minimum resistance for it to be approved to be used on building applications.
During manufacture add hydrated aluminum oxide or magnesium oxide alone or together with bromine or phosphorus compounds. During a fire, these compounds decompose and absorb energy. They can help reduce the fire by releasing water and form a fire barrier by charring. Alum oxide and magnesium oxide are non-toxic, non-volatile and environmentally friendly.
In the signage industry here in Australia and many other parts of the world we use a lot of A.C.M. (aluminium composite material) which was used on the Grenfell Tower which caught fire recently.
In fact forget bricks and make sheets clad in aluminium (around 3-5 mm thick) to stop any possible off gassing and reduce the chance of catching fire all together. A Precious Plastics sheetpress might be a good start but I think a roller type press might be a better idea.
We are making green bricks/blocks/pavers/tiles since 2016 here in New Delhi national capital region in India.
We consume pollutants like flyash of thermal power plants & city incinerators, sludge lime of dry acetylene gas factories, waste gypsum from refrigeration gas factories, waste stone dust from aggregate crushers, construction and demolition C&D waste of the city to make innovative, interlocking high strength (EN2 C12/15 to C35/45) lifestyle building materials mostly with renewable solar energy.
We appreciate your efforts and if you think about any setup in India, we can help..!! Currently in India, plastic waste is majorly consumed either in pyrolysis to make fuel, or in hot mix plants, while making bituminous asphalt roads.
Awesome Sir! Truly proud of your efforts. Heartfelt thanks and gratitude from a fellow countryman! 🙏👌
Pankaj Mittal wow amazing. I wish to help.
I am considering setting up in Nigeria, can you be of help, at least in aspect of guidance. Thanks
I've always had this idea. I'm happy you guys made it happen! Thank you for sharing how to make them. 🙏
This is so incredible and I am a huge advocate for what is done by all of you. I salute you.
Really appreciate that this is open source.
another interesting thing is that the hollow bricks could be filled with insulation of some type (even something as simple as sawdust) to help keep heat in/out
Geopolymer concrete mixed woth polystirene regrind as a filler for heat insulation.
They have been doing this in Colombia for 12-15 years now.
@Monte tsar think he/they just made a specific design like a lego brick with plastic.
Monte tsar Maybe, or like the telephone, this was invented in two different places at the same time.
Kill O Kill No sé donde están instalados, pero tienen un sitio en la red que se llama Conceptos Plásticos, además de un canal de RUclips
Si en colombia ya llevan 11 años con eso en bogota y cali el sistema nacio en cali mira colombia hace casas de plastico
Yes, and the company that started there expanded to Costa Rica and Spain, possibly other countries. Major recycling plus, hope it continues to progress.
If homes were made out of these bricks I would be concerned about "off-gassing" of the plastic since it will have sun and oxygen exposure. For home construction I would like to see a brick that is not hollow extruded hdpe only, but a more solid heat compressed sandwich of all the most difficult to recycle plastics (like grocery bags) creating an ugly messy looking brick that is meant to be encased in cement or cob.
Hey Coryart, We agree and this exposed method is really just for display. We also highly recommend encasing in cement or cob to protect against UV and general weathering. The beauty of this brick is that it can also be made from less pure waste plastics and also the hollow element of the brick allows for waste filling (for future recycling such as styrofoams).
The plastic you are talking about is anyway being exposed to sun and oxygen. Do you prefer it on your beaches, parks, foodchain, etc or on your walls? There must be an additive that can solve that anyway, or as you said, encasing them should be enough.
I assume these bricks are made of polyethylene. Polyethylene is one of the most inert plastics and uses very little toxic chemicals in the production compared to some other plastics. It uses ethylene gas as a precursor which is the same gas used to ripen the fruit you probably eat. Polyethylene is also the most common plastic used in food containers. If you are worried about that then you shouldn't be eating farm fruit or using food contained in plastic.
Estrogen..
I would think that simply painting the surfaces with a type of "barrier paint" would cut down or stop outgassing altogether.
There are several types of barrier paints available on the market.
What I love is how attractive you have been able to make these bricks!
The beautiful thing is that these people had created something worthwhile and to be proud of, it's nice that discriminations are brought upon so to give new ideas and maybe we could suggest somethings to make it more useful, too. Like having an outside covering to make the plastic bricks less exposed to UV, use the bricks accordingly where the place/house/building is used for a less heat activity, etc.😊
I'm actually very interested in this idea. I think it would help bring some color to houses and buildings
He doesn't want to build houses out of this.
He wants to build structures that should be built but ppl always find a way to be cheap with it.
Like you could make a shed out of this. Paint it or something so it stays durable. It's would be cool for small buildings that you don't actually live inside. At least till it's tested for a longer time for safety.
it's not safe that's probably why he stopped working on it and made it open source lol
he said to make shelters for the homeless.
@@davidsandberg7631 And for hurricane ravaged areas, Hurricanes strike more then once. With simple sturdy foundation things like this would help anywhere.
I love everything about this. And the colors are super cool.
Godspeed to whoever adopts this. We need it.
Just sell them as GIANT TOY BLOCKS for consumers to make small structures in their back yards.
"A tool shed any size you want!"
"A dog house any size you want!"
"A sand box any size you want!"
"A play house any size you want!"
And so on...
@Electronic Impulse All Systems Firing
Eh...maybe not a boat.
How about a really neat planter?
@Electronic Impulse All Systems Firing
A 1000/1 scale model of the plastic brick made out of plastic bricks?
It has been said that genius is rarely recognized in its lifetime, but I see you.
I see you.
Second garage, here I come. I could snap one together in a day.
This is the most exciting concept i have seen in quite a while. Our ministry is building rescue homes in Uganda. There is TONS of plastic waste just there waiting to be harvested.
This is what I've been searching for, thank you
imagine house fire in plastic home the whole house melting on you while you try to escape 👍
If your in there long enough for it to catch fire youd be dead from the fumes. Thick plastic like that wouldnt catch easily but once it did 😮
Oof
I was thinking about this for the entire video. It was terrible enough living down wind, even many miles away, from one of the towns that burned in California last summer. Can you imagine the air quality near a neighborhood of these, and they would probably keep burning for weeks also.
Pretty sure it's not supposed to be used for bigger structures
I had this idea awhile ago, I wish I had the gumption to put it into fuition like you guys did.
Bricks like this were available in the UK half a century ago. I seem to recall the name was IncaBricks. You could build almost anything from greenhouses to shower enclosures with them.
At the time, I thought they were the best idea since sliced bread. They vanished - I can't remember why.
Anyone else remember them?
Excellent. Simple and elegant and great way to save the world at the same time. I would love these for a couple of projects like a greenhouse structure that would never rot or rust.
I'm gonna do my best to follow your starting point! thanks again for your effort and please never surrender to the plastic issue!
I wouln't make my house out of this but it would make for a really colourful gardenwall!
Amazing!!! Congratulations from Brazil 🇧🇷 👏👏👏👏
Wonderful to see solutions for all of the waste plastic having a better purpose
The best thing about the lego bricks is, you can make pieces that can hold flower pots, put multiple small plants and make oxygen too!
Would be pretty awesome (and pretty fast sold out), if Lego would put their official logo on it :)
I love Carabiner-man !
Great bricks!
This is so awesome! I hope this starts getting used corporately.
I love this. Raised bed gardening seems to pop into my mind immediately.
Imagine home consumers had a machine to put their waste into and out came blocks ready for selling back to the market, or it gave credits for blocks produced. If it has value it won't be discarded thoughtlessly.
I would be fine with just an extra trash can that I would put recyclables in and someone could pick them up and have them for free. The problem is where i live the trash company charges extra for a recycling bin, only picks it up every other week, and doesn't even do that reliably, so it may take 4 weeks to get it picked up. I stopped paying the upcharge and just put everything in the trash can.
If people want to encourage something valuable to be saved, lets start by not making it cost money to do the right thing. At my last house the trash company offered free recycling bins picked up weekly and it was great.
@@jjbpenguin in Australia we have recycle collections. But the truth of what happens to that is...it gets sold and becomes a commodity that is brought to countries with poor regulations and sorted there. All the junk bits get left behind (usually on the farmers land that rented the space) and only the good easy to recycle stuff makes it to the next stage of being sold again. It's a dirty business and that's why I suggest we need to make plastic have Value at the very beginning of the recycling chain.
@@m3sca1 Imagine you are enlarging your home with your recycled plastics!
Absolutely Amazing fellas. I will be sure to make a donation.
Absolutely wonderful
Essentially, lego is the future of building and those kids who played with lego will be instantly masters
How are the weight-bearing properties?
The tapered walls actually look pretty keen, and would direct watershed away from the joints. You could even return-taper the bottom bit so that you could have flat bands along a wall of them to affix siding or other finishes to.
Pretty impressive. I hope more funding and development will follow soon. We need things like this to deal with all the waste plastic that is produced. Brilliant!
Thank you for your work.
The most important question of all is how much of a load can a single brick withstand? How much weight will a whole wall hold? Nobody will take these bricks seriously if you can't have a serious idea of how strong these bricks are. After all they are hollow and we are not talking about toys here. Over time plastic under load sags and breaks. And yes all plastics emit toxic chemicals when heated by mere sunlight.
They did testing on the press it seems. Also you could just coat the plastic wall or even just plainly paint it
"All plastics emit toxic chemicals when heated by mere sunlight" is a bit click-baity don't you think? All plastics slowly degrade in the sun, yes. But given that most people wear plastic daily in the form of polyester blended fabrics there's no reason to believe they couldn't make bricks with equally inert properties.
The load for one brick was about 10 metric tonnes before failure.
Now we are getting somewhere!
@@sustainabledesign.studio And and what is the weight of each brick?
for those that are afraid that it will tip over. try filling it with gravel and rocks but not sand. since it seems like the product isn't very waterproof and the insides are hollow, we can assume that the outside must have a coating of some sort to fill the gaps between the blocks so the water doesn't get in the blocks. because if the water got in the blocks it will become a mosquito nest every rain season.
I love the idea recycling this way it's amazing how technology has changed over the years
Love to see this kind of work
China will start manufacturing these too, but not from recycled plastic
oof
Wtf how in the right mind would make this brick from fresh plastic???
@@JamilKhan-hk1wl china
Well that's exactly the opposite we want now isn't it.
China isn't dumb. They aren't the worlds largest economy, or 2nd largest, for no reason.
How did I miss the part about how to make one myself?
community.preciousplastic.com/how-to/make-extruded-plastic-bricks
And it's so simple to do 🤣
brilliant ideas, busy completing the precious plastics academy course
Great idea guys, make roof tiles too, these can be used immediately 🙂
This is first class , please keep it up .
and my mom laughed at me when I said I wish I could build a house outta lego
This is exactly what I was looking for.. hope this makes it to the market soon worldwide.
Do you know the dimensions of the brick
@@radiyaummeayman1040 I don’t know.
Good to see... great idea...God Bless you......keep going for new all the best ...iam from Hyderabad India 👍🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
You should try to partner up with those people trying to clear up the oceans and waterways of plastic. Look into mobile processing plants on trucks too.
Has anyone raised the idea that plastic bricks can burn easily?
It mostly melts, plus wood can't?
@@slimknight_ It will BURN.
And give off deadly fumes when it does.
@@AndrewHelgeCox As same as most insulating coats and meterials, those bricks are flamable, but I have a news for you: the paint of your walls is also flamable and highly toxic
@@slimknight_ it is being compared more with concrete when wood when he said that mountains are ocean floors are being destroyed for construction.
This is a fabulous use for all the plastic waste all over to provide something that millions of people need which is housing, wow I just love this, I've seen people creating zinc roofs out of recycled plastic, and pavements for sidewalks mixed with concrete which is fabulous, I just love this new innovation we are helping the environment and providing something millions plof people need.
Nzombi is doing the same thing. Colombia’s also making these bricks too.
Add micro rebar and air foamed cement to make it strong and fireproof.
0:22 and Rory changes his mind about Animorphing.
LOL
This is amazing! I want to have some sort of this operation in my yard
As a natural home builder in Canada, I can say that the flammability is not so much of an issue for me, rether offgassing of the plastic over time is, as is the durability of the plastic over time. sun degredation concerns me.
I love the concept and I think that you are correct about our plastic issue and I am so glad that you are working on positive solutions to this problem. Personally I like pyrolysis to diesel and/or incineration for unrecyclable plastics and road paving tar for the recyclables that China no longer accepts. I want all the plastics to be sorted out, not just some of them
Have you thought of partnering with everblock or pressuring them to get more sustainable with their manufacturing?
What about adding plastic to a mixing truck full of concrete? With plastic shredded in long strips you could add lots of strength to the concrete, while not worrying about how clean the plastic was before shredding. This could be used in poured concrete walls as well.
This way a lot of plastic can be used with minimal processing...?
Virgin polystyrene is used too make lightweight, less-strong but more-insulating concrete blocks. The polystyrene beads have a similar function to soap bubbles in aircrete.
There's a company in my country that mix concrete with shredded plastic.. But they only have paving blocks products not bricks.. Their Instagram is rebricks.id
Excellent idea!
Great work!
You can eliminate the tapered wall by using a split mould
really good idea. until it starts burning in the plastic-built house.
yeah i was just gonna say " so how do you make it fire proof"
also, there are probably more valuable things you can make with 1.5KG of plastic than a brick. what i mean is that the plastic may come from the trash, but it is still expensive af compared to regular bricks which are made of pretty much dirt
@J Tech
Ah yes, Lung cancer.
Wood is also flammable, the only thing that is fire resistant in homes these days are the external bricks (assuming they are available) and some siding products. Drywall allows some fire retardant properties but not much and some insulation basically turns to saw dust in a matter of years. Asphalt shingle roofs are extremely flammable and they are on every house in America. So the “it’s flammable so we shouldn’t use it” argument doesn’t really hold water.
@@TMGREVERENDX You can make wood fireproof
That's a great idea hope ppl get it and start using it
Well done, awesome ideas
It's refreshing seeing a tangible resolution to pollution.
And very unrefreshing to see everyone finding reasons to shut down this idea
@Dave Hanson I worked in a plastics plant and you are just wrong. There is in house recycling that occurs from parts that are not passing quality. The fumes are not present from the heating process. They are normally fumes from the press itself unless you are talking about high heat polymers like Nylon.
There is a plastic eating algae recently discovered. It is being studied to find the enzyme and mass synthesis. I don't have my Dow MSDS from being the material handler or I would post those. Basically between working in plastics and just Security at a food plant...you are safer eating plastic. If you knew what people have been eating you wouldn't question the rates increasing. You know gravy mix is made from ground up feather quills for example...Beef is only 30%cow and can be another 20% filler no more than 10% wood.
Saying that today we are a garbage society because we produce trash most of all now.
Dave Hanson I can’t believe you turned a video about giant LEGO bricks into a platform for your racism.
@Dave Hanson Whatever person. You are asking for infonfrom the data sheets you refuted. I got no time for psuedo science when I am willing to discuss actuall data sheets.
@Dave HansonTell me more about how it is all a conspiracy! You left out the conspiracy about 5G or flat earth. Enlighten the world 1 youtube comment at a time..
So they are just like regular bricks, just more expensive and less durable....
And better for the environment, and probably necessary if we are to be able to survive on the Earth much longer.
This gives me hope 🤗
Hi luckily i am also working on Building blocks made out of waste plastics with mixing some composites and additives your video helped me a lot and soon i will share you my project deltails, MVG
Have structural engineers analyzed the brick's capacity for load bearing in larger, multi-story use?
I'm interested too! 😍
I could see them using metal rods though the holes to stabilize the structures. But I'm at a creative loss after that.
Kudos, This is some amazing work, they look beautiful and the idea of just setting up partitions in a day or less is amazing.
I would like to know more about fire resistance, and what happens if in case the room / structure catches fire ?
What kind of effect will encapsulation in cement have on fire resistance and gasses emitted in case of fire.
Regards.
Chetan
Melt
@@henokhjosandraehesperus7369 How often do your Legos catch on fire? Never? I thought so.
love the idea !
Well done!
So where was the testing of how it did in hot conditions you mentioned?
Could you fill the wall interiors with aircrete to make them stronger and more permanent?
Actually I thought of that, BUT even when it does use less concrete, it would need a good amount of it to fill the empty space, nevertheless if it were used to cover the plastic wall it would: 1) Help with the UV exposure problem 2) Give that much needed fireproof factor 3) Heavly increase the isulation value.
But aircrete could be used to make inner columns too (idk how is it called in english) pouring it in a vertical hole in the corners, and if one put a steel bar in the middle it should actually meet the parameters
of construction.
What about curing time of the aircrew?
@@FelipeAPerez-gw1re first reading the comment about concrete i wanted to mention steel bars that can go inside! That will really make them permanent, also you can use paint to protect plastics from the uv, just need to find cheap uv-protected paint
I was wondering that too. In fact, why can't these be used like concrete CMU filled with rebar and concrete. I think that would be very sturdy.
Heineken made beer bottles years ago following these very same principles. Very cool idea. I hope it takes off.
Good job . Keep it up . Well done
I see this as a great alternative to regular interior walls.
Might create a problem with humidity/condensation?
@@crosstraffic187 Maybe? I don't really think so. They would be used to seperate rooms. Not so much anything else. And if need be, you could still hand dry-wall on them or paint them with something.
@@cypressgold For spacial separation, that would be OK. But for outside walls, I'm pretty sure you would have problems with condensation. Some old brick houses have problems with condensation and mold due to lack of ventilation and humidity. Bricks breathe, plastic does not. Plastic is watertight, bricks are not. And drywalling them won't change that. brickvent.net/bricks-need-breathe/
@@crosstraffic187 I meant literally only interior separating walls. Exterior would still need to be conventional.
@@cypressgold Yes, my missunderstanding was that the outside walls here are built in 2 layers, and the interior layer is also considered to be an interior wall. My bad.
Make houses for homeless with these
No thanks. Plastic finish to be shred in little particule who kill wildlife. If you really want to make house for homeless people, do it properly. With cob for example.
Great, all respect to inovators, thanks....
This is so amazing
I hope you don't mind but im going to take your idea and help poor communities build houses
The design is open source for a reason! Please help as many people as you can :)
Im curious how strong that wall is
I really wanna run into them
There is are really large threaded roads holding the wall down...we tried to knock it down...but we couldn't :)
@@sustainabledesign.studio nice
That’s AMAZING 👍🏻💫
This is beautiful you guys
Plastic bricks - an excuse to continue using plastic packaging and products.
I wonder, can you elaborate the problem of using plastic packaging and products?
This isn't an excuse to keep using plastic packaging and products. It's something to do with them after they've been used. The reason to continue using plastic packaging and products is because they're cheap and effective. It's basic economics. The answer is ALWAYS basic economics. If you want a solution, it 100% must be an economic solution or it will fail.
If you want to stop using these petrol-based plastics, all you have to do is come up with an alternative that's just as effective at a better price. At that point there will be no reason to continue using petrol-based products. Nobody is loyal to petrol. They're only loyal to their pocket book. Right now petrol is offering them the most useful products at the lowest price. Give them a better alternative, and they'll use that instead.
So? Nothing inherently wrong with these, expect the recycling problems in the 3rd world. Finding a way to profitably recycle them like this is the solution.
@@chubbyninja842 Couldn't have said it better, these eco-extremist morons just want to make your life hell. They offer no alternative, just propose going back to climbing trees.
how much is the mould i need to start such bricks factory
About €100-200 depending on the cost of your welder.
Very interesting. We've been really diving into uses of plastics in our home after setting the goal of picking up 1 million pieces of garbage. It would be fun to build a Lego home 🏡 😀
Love the Teal Colors I really Encourage Tree housing developments. We can help humanity and the Forest