How to Make Ecobricks

Ecobrick making is simple, but there are important guidelines.
Start right- this is a long-term lifestyle habit that you are beginning. Learn the right way in this short one-minute movie.

[@neostraws4651]

Thank you so much! With your video I will be able to help more schools to do ecobricks. More power to your organization!

[@srhfitzpatrick]

I'm tempted to try this with Poland Spring bottles. Build a she-shed in the backyard with them.

[@bikelanez7376]

We need this in Los Angeles California please

[@eddieleong6490]

For hard plastics i.e. from boxes, chairs, fences, etc. I will use a shredder to make small chips for inserting. Fill the voids with sand or earth. If the soil is wet, just drill a small hole to vent. Just be creative.

[@bicolananghilawilonggoto9059]

Very informative and useful

[@eddieleong6490]

You can pack plastic, sand and soil into PET bottles. In fact, using fine sand and soil may fill up the gaps and make it more solid. Someone cut the bottoms of two bottles, insert one into another and just stuff wet plastics collected on the beach. Holes allow the water to evaporate. when sealed, they perform as bricks too. Just be creative, no need to be rigid and follow one style of making the bricks.

[@GurnoorKaur-so4ry]

Nice

[@Plarndude]

I’ve been packing plastic into plastic bottles as part of my plarn making process. I don’t know what to do with these bottles stuffed full of bits of plastic from shopping bags. I’ve got piles of them. Will someone Please take them?

[@babablanche401]

Hello can I use this video to promote ecobrick making in our community?

[@prakashpatel4318]

Wonderful

[@xloves2785]

Do you have a drop-off center in Cebu Philippines? Please reply, thank you so much! :)

[@remirubel5371]

does it matter if the plastic is wet or still has food content on it?

[@halimakimathi4189]

Food is bio degradable.

[@catmandoza]

Apart from the bit where he said "clean, dry plastic", no I don't think it matters!

[@remirubel5371]

@@catmandoza thanks for your reply! I have a bunch of eco bricks made at our school in El Cerrito, CA that I'd like to donate somewhere. Any thoughts?

[@amandastein1989]

The materials put in the eco brick need to be wasted and dried fully.

[@sriharshamadananth1276]

Can I put tablet foils in it ?

[@planetrocker6984]

how many years an ecobrick can last ?

[@ronaldebalan4035]

from Pitogo high school here

[@MadnesssResolutionStudios]

Wow

[@rodrigodelavega9452]

Aguante la agro(de olavarria )

[@MichaelRada-INDUSTRY50]

Why not paper?

[@CrustyBiker]

Paper in them is wasting precious space as that can be recycled easily anyway so that's the best thing to do with it, we don't make eco bricks as a craft project, it's a means to an end to keep plastic waste from getting buried or end up in waterways or the sea, if they are used in architecture, they are locked up safe for many years.... hopefully.

[@MichaelRada-INDUSTRY50]

@@CrustyBiker Thank you for your replay, but "can" does not mean it is being recycled. There are many single-use paper products which end up on a landfill as well. Can you let me know please what is the average weight of ready-made eco-brick? Thank you

[@isidoraristic9363]

Paper is biodegradable.

[@MichaelRada-INDUSTRY50]

@@isidoraristic9363 I know and do you know how much of the paper ends up on a ladfill?

[@isidoraristic9363]

@@MichaelRada-INDUSTRY50 I know, but you can't compare paper that ends up in landfill with plastic that ends up in landfill. No animal will die because of the paper.

[@daianavaldiviezo5031]

open inglish

[@saxenaboyzgamer]

Hahahahaha

[@filipmudri4741]

Nice