2018 PETCO Awards - Public Campaign of the Year: EcoBrick Exchange

This category recognises a public-facing campaign that has successfully addressed a challenge around waste and the waste hierarchy, reducing reliance on landfill, increasing PET recycling, boosting reuse, or reducing waste-generating behaviour, specifically amongst South African consumers.
The EcoBrick Exchange (Western Cape) is an environment awareness enterprise that facilitates the construction of preschools in underprivileged communities using unrecyclable plastic waste. They do this by using EcoBricks - unrecyclable plastic waste compressed into PET-bottles - a highly insulating building material that is water- and fire-proof. They have formalised training programmes for micro-builders, which they sell to government, NGO and corporate clients to empower local entrepreneurs and design high quality buildings using EcoBricks and other 'waste' materials. The campaign has reached 88 821 people thus far.

[@jacobmartin3389]

love what your doing with the waste!!!

[@nibiruthecat7652]

Wonderful! I started yesterday and already I am hooked!

[@Colonel_Flanders]

I feel like garden beds are always the go to for a small, attainable project, but someone should start an ecobrick project of just like, a ledge for skateboarding.

[@intelligenthanddryer]

This is amazing! I want to lobby Brands to use bottles that are designed to interlink so Ecobricks can become more widespread

[@DonAmaTV]

Great! Something extraordinary indeed.

[@courtoisclarens9068]

Building a small appartment with 4k dust filled bottles - Thx for the video

[@mysustainabilityjourney9321]

On my second Eco-brick. Am going to make a small table/stool.

[@cellgroupyoga728]

Love it!

[@madamlalsharma9646]

My friend ur work and concept is very very nice

[@kagimonji]

this is an amazing video! can we use this for class purposes?

[@Petco.Official]

Go ahead :)

[@jonatanika7865]

Good

[@tabletopia]

A group of us wants to build a small home with Eco Bricks for a colleague at work. We need help with plans and know-how. Will you be able to help us? We are all currently making bricks as part of the project.

[@Petco.Official]

Best to contact Ecobrick Exchange. They specialise in training for building out of eco-bricks.

[@planetrocker6984]

how many years eco bricks can last ?

[@Petco.Official]

Hi there. You can check this kind of info directly with the EcoBrick Exchange: www.ecobrickexchange.org/

[@rachealmubanga5521]

Hi I love this project, and I should love to start my own here in Zambia but I need more knowledge please how may I contact you!