Young Inventor Makes Bricks From Plastic Trash | World Wide Waste

A company in nairobi wants to install these plastic. bricks on streets across kenya's capital. ninety percent of roads have never been paved and are roads made from plastic trash. A pallet of 400 plastic pavers can sell for up to 150 dollars depending on thickness the company says that's about 25 percent cheaper than bricks made from concrete. Experts say these innovations may increase the amount of plastic released into the. environment roads are subject to constant abrasion we drive on them right and so roads are actually the primary source of micro plastics in the environment even on tires on vehicles every time if we build the entire road out of plastic or even part of the road that is going to be more abrasion of plastic and going into the environment in recent years researchers have found microplastics in nearly every sample of our food drinking water the air we breathe and even inside our bodies that we breathe in. The company says they can handle about 10 metric tons of plastic every month and are working to increase their production to produce 1500 blocks a day that's enough bricks to cover. a courtyard like the one at this community center for me i think the price. is cheaper and affordable compared to other materials used to make payments a pallet of. 400 plastic pavers can selling for up to 150 dollars depending on thickness the company says that’s about 25% cheaper than concrete to build roads. The company is working to improve and optimize the technology because. i get the feeling we are only doing like a really small portion of it. and there's so much potential that this technology has that we are yet to realize. and this is just the beginning turning waste into pavement is an idea that's already. caught on in other countries construction workers in india have been mixing small amounts of. plastic waste into asphalt for decades making new roads that are stronger and that last. longer but experts say this is a good idea for a country with one of the world's toughest bands on plastic bags but bottles and other containers are still everywhere this is where workers sort them they can handling about 10 tons of plastic every month. This machine heats the plastic and sand mixture until it's soft enough to mold this. is one of my proudest moments as a person as a team member and also. as the founder of django so what you see here the machine and all the. others we fabricated here in virginia it is mixed together at very high temperatures so. it changes anything from 300 to 100 degree centigrade where it mixes that plastic and. sand and forms a gooey like a dough-like material and that's what we make them. food each lump of the mixture is weighed by hand people say the smell is. something like new asphalt on a hot day so the brick currently joseph is producing. is 1.3 kilogram so  that's what he's measuring he'sasuring one particular gram of the. mixture this hydraulic press can squeeze nine bricks at a time ideally speaking it's like. making our cookies and this is the guy with a magic tag so. i'll let him do his thing at this point the bricks need to cool so. they can harden at room temperature so here is the queering wheel so once we. take from the adrenaline press we feed it in the curing bed and then after like about two to five minutes you have a finished product many bricks come. off the press with jagged edges a worker breaks them off on a large stone. before adding the finished bricks to a stack for now giugenge's output is modest we need to increase our production to must produce what we are doing currently right now. we're targeting also to produce what we are doing now right now  in addition to that we're also working on manhole covers the other one is roofing tiles the other one is drainage gutters and. also in addition to that we're targeting also to improve and optimize the technology because i get the feeling we are only doing to improve the technology because we are only doing a really small portion of it and there's so much potential that this technology has that we yet to realize and this is just the beginning of it to be more affordable compared to other materials used to make pay to make payments in Kenya's capital to pay for a cities and to build a  courtyard like a community center in the city of nairobi to help people with their pipes to get a road.