Chile: Companies recycle plastic waste to make building materials

[@claudinskicp]

School furniture! Ojalá se le diera la cobertura que merece está compañía, sería ideal que los colegios participarán reciclando estos plásticos para ayudar en la fabricación de muebles para colegios, mesas para comedores, etc. bravo!!

[@llcharl1e]

Thank you for reporting this. Please follow up on how to expand this practice worldwide

[@silvasilva3350]

Fantastico.

[@CU65LATER]

Good that Chile has found this also...Blastic use should be taxed heavily in big companies .And that tax revenue should use to reforestation.

[@akkermanrik]

We need this everywhere, re-use that plastic garbage

[@jornalistarenatarosa4205]

It's genious!

[@kareemkalisari]

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[@hardrocker498]

Honestly my big question is how it holds up to extended UV exposure and wear; It could be a real source of microplastics otherwise. But I suppose they've been making deck chairs and things out of them for a while now.

[@CU65LATER]

+ Mexi Sexroid It is UV - protected

[@bonniematthews2500]

We should be doing this in the usa

[@200555280]

Amazing hope its implemented everywhere

[@ActiveCitizen22]

This is what we should use against the wooden material... This is how we can save environmental issues by reducing deforestation...

[@sizanogreen9900]

and don't forget: a SENSIBLE way of recycling many types of plastics as of yet unrecyclable.

[@carlosreid51]

sounds like a plan

[@Troobeli69]

Wouldn't there be same micro plastic going to ground water, rivers and oceans that comes from regular plastic waste already?

[@CU65LATER]

Not against wooden material but with both. And tax those big worldwide plastic user companies ( water botles and other junk ).

[@SutchiroPete]

@@Troobeli69 good question. Not IF it doesn't degrade from UV rays like other plastics.

[@TheBasher-_-]

Yes more plastics recycling, This is fantastic!

[@vthilton]

Save Our Planet

[@johnjohnfrederickh.webber2124]

Ingenious... I applaud the creators of plastic "lumber"....

[@jalaluddinshafi9397]

Hats off 👍

[@Daniel-gs9eh]

we have been doing this in the UK for years but it nots profitable unless subsidiarised by governments or charity

[@ShahrezadNorMohammadiy9116]

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[@justdogood7413]

Fine. Now promote open borders for global prosperity.

[@nalinpatel5129]

I am very pleased to know that

[@AljabbarWestJava]

SAVE OUR PLANET 🌍🌏🌎!

[@RJM1011]

I looked at doing the same in the UK already but the Gov said NO. Also cutting the trees is NOT a problem as long as you replace them as using them to build with is stored CO2 out of the air and you replant more trees so get rid of more CO2 from the air we all have to breath.

[@SutchiroPete]

1) Should we assume the UK government said no because they are happy with continued plastic pollution and landfilling with plastic or there was another problem with your business plan? 2) true, building with wood is using carbon stored by the tree. The problems are, as soon as you cut the tree you have removed that carbon storing system and planting a new seedling will not begin to replace the carbon storing ability of an older tree for many years. (Think 300 leaves carbon absorbing ability vs. 300,000 leaves ability each year). We need to both plant lots of trees to replace the billions that have already been cut and not replaced AND stop the flow of plastic into our environment.

[@farhatahmed3116]

Use it to build new houses for everyone. Not just first world countries but for the second world and third world. We live in a world where we don't understand what we consume let alone where the debris ends up.

[@Exilia2]

Sound like a good idea, now we have to think on the amount of energy used for turning the plastic to recycled materials, it would be good to find a way to avoid plastic from the beginning... Glass is more expensive but doesn't contaminate, another idea would be buy food loose, without plastic wrapping, like 100 years ago...

[@SutchiroPete]

Putting a price on carbon is a simple way to get companies to think about these costs and implement ways to bring them down. Business loves predictability and knowing what will save them the most money.

[@jamie4871]

This can be save mother nature,no more cut tree's for chair's,table's,and wood's use for house ...

[@logicalhuman007]

Western countries are main reason for deforestation because they use lot more wood for construction of houses unlike eastern countries . irony is they waste more wood for coffins (there are alternatives which are environment friendly like mushroom coffines, alkaline hydrolyis tree pod burials, artificial reefs with human remains) and christmas trees. Instead if they use recycled plastic like above. May be deforestation in brazil or austrailia wouldn't have occured.

[@justdogood7413]

Plastic should and must be phased out eventually replacing with eco-friendly alternatives.

[@Buttersausage]

There’s the answer to woods inflation

[@FarhiRosleysembunyi]

IKEA, please take note.

[@pedropinheiroaugusto3220]

Errr... UVs? Degrades into microplastics? Sawdust microplastics? Just thinking out loud...

[@SutchiroPete]

Ooh good point!!! Even if these are UV resistant, how would you capture all the sawdust created during construction and prevent it from getting into the environment...including your lungs. It may not be any worse than wood sawdust in your lungs but certainly isn't sawdust you could compost.

[@Rayxnyc]

Bravo. Recycle plastic all over the world ❌❌❌

[@hempmayor6639]

Been around forever but the citizens didn't care

[@ianrobinson9565]

GO CHILE , why isn't AUSTRALIA working with CHILE?

[@suleimankhamis8298]

I SAY YESSSSSSSS

[@Dara-wk5ty]

2:30 She's right :/

[@Walkin2046]

Plant more tree, recycle and reuse all these plastic, and eliminate more human make the earth a better place !!

[@chuckleo6039]

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[@DTIVO16]

I dont really think a long term use for plastics while the earth heats to put in a building is actually gonna be safe. It may start off good but long term um yea from hot to cold plastic no matter how tough will warp and change over time. So yea good luck that. That's accident just waiting to happen

[@BrutallHawk]

it will still be usable for longer then wood and we use wood today so i don't really get your point?

[@DTIVO16]

@@BrutallHawk not really. Depends on climate changing heating and cooling off are not starting to stretch limits. Not saying you cant use them for parts of the house mean more towards studs and strengthening posts. It would probably be better for roads and walkways and skateboards and stuff like that

[@kareemkalisari]

Save Our Planet 🌍🌏🌎!! Ladies and gentlemen! --- Thank you - and thank you so much 🌏 Al Jazeera English!. Thank you very much - Ladies and gentlemen! - for your's solidarity 🌍🌎🌏 O 🌍Al Jazeera English - Maybe you're right! That is the world🌍 we seek√ But we can only achieve it🌍 together. I know there are many -- Muslim and non-Muslim -- who question whether we can forge this new beginning? ... Some are eager to stoke the flames of division. and to stand in the way of progress. Some 🌍suggest that it isn't worth the effort -- that we are fated to disagree. and civilizations 🌏 are doomed to class. Many more 🌎 are simply skeptical that real change can occur √. There's 🌍 so much fear | so much mistrust that has built up over the years. But if we choose to be bound by the past 🌎🌏🌍. O 🌏 Al Jazeera English! - we .. will never move forward✍️. Thank you. And May God's peace 🌏 be upon you all. 🌏# I Thank you. 🌎🌏🌍 ### .

[@sailormoon296]

We need this everywhere, re-use that plastic garbage