Bottle bricks

Lincoln High grad Laura Kutner spearheaded the project to make classroom walls in Granados out of over 4,000 discarded plastic bottles and other litter.

Having built an eco-house myself I thought I had a basic grasp of how an eco-building works and why. However, I have since realised that I had only just begun to understand the principles of eco-bu…

Students from the University of Medellín have received a patent to help accelerate a recycling program that creates eco-bricks. And the goal? To enable families with limited resources to build homes. Two students, along with three professors, have been working on the environmental project for more than two years, and it was only after confirmation […]

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Here are some pictures showing how to make bottle bricks. In this case, a picture truly is worth a thousand words. The finished bottle ends are being pricked with a map pin to allow moisture to t…

Ecobricks teaches people how to make reusable building blocks by packing soft plastic garbage into plastic bottles. The building blocks can be used for buildings, walls, or modular furniture. The group says ecobricks offer a zero-cost solution to the problem of widespread plastics pollution.

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A Quick and Easy, step by step on how to make bottle bricks. Bottle bricks allow light to shine through a wall, and color the light the color of the glass used in the brick. A bottle brick is made up of the bottom 4" or 5" of a bottle. (depending on the size of your bottle brick