Is Trash The Building Material of The Future? | World Wide Waste | Business Insider Marathon

All over the world, countries, companies, and people are turning trash into treasure. What starts as old milk cartons, tires, or seaweed becomes bricks, tiles, and boxes used for things such as paving roads and building homes. We went to places like Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico, and Thailand to see if garbage is the building material of the future.
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00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Young Inventor Makes Bricks From Plastic Trash
09:41 - One Nigerian Entrepreneur's Solution For Millions Of Old Tires
19:13 - How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches
27:15 - How Bricks Made From Milk Cartons Can Help Typhoon Victims
35:30 - How Bricks Are Made From Plastic Trash
43:40 - Credits
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[@jadedrealist]

Most of the pepple in these comments don't get it. The plastic would break down into microplastics no matter what, this is at least keeping some of the larger plastics (which again break down into microplastic in the water) out of waterways and gives developing areas building materials. I bet every single commenter uses plastic daily, until you stop using it yourself (and then tossing it or pretending it gets recycled instead of getting shipped off to countries) maybe hold your tongue.

[@smallego8068]

Plastic turns into microplastic as soon as the plastic has to endure even the smallest mechanical forces. Tires of cars, the wind blowing small particles against your plastic brick made house etc.

[@evlsc400]

@@smallego8068 What is vinyl siding made of? why do people like yourself, who clearly have no idea in this space- type out a comment? like tf kind of goofy drugs did your doctor prescribe you?

[@highestqualitypigiron]

There's no microplastics if you incinerate the plastic, you can burn it for energy too. Not sure why this isn't done. I guess people are terrified of CO2 emissions

[@hansdampf2084]

And you also need to hold your tongue because its IMPOSSIBLE nowadays to live without plastic. Its everywhere. Alternatives like weed are still in the danger zone because people like you still believe propaganda.

[@nthedecent7717]

That's a cute soapbox, too bad the actual solution is simply properly processing waste material instead of just letting 3rd worlders play with our scraps, having them wallow in the health consequences. Then again, that kinda propper solution takes people with brains, so I don't know how much you can relate to that 😏

[@stormaggeden]

Its so inspiring to see people working so hard to work with the plastic issue. Like they said its not a perfect fix, but works for now. Now we need to focus on banning plastic for good.

[@AyupStuggy]

Plastic is a fantastic material. The problem is what we do with it afterwards, the worst thing to do is to trash it.

[@cnaizhen]

Until a suitable replacement material has been found (cheap*, check all the various properties different plastics have), the focus has never been on banning plastics.

[@sanniepstein4835]

Which plastic, in which role? Corian is a great invention.

[@jamescox7007]

The first video is amazing. The girl who owns the company appreciates every worker. The sorter to the press worker. Good for her.

[@sriharshacv7760]

Yeah. Also her tremendous childlike energy.

[@carlramirez6339]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="295">4:55</a> "Roads are actually the primary source of microplastics in the environment" - and this ignores that the predominant way roads produce microplastics is not from the road itself but from tyres.

[@69Emoji]

Plankton thought we'd never get his grey chum recipe

[@bodacious9777]

Hahahahahahahaha good one

[@ronch550]

It's both great and at the same time kinda sad that plastic really isn't going anywhere and will just accumulate

[@InternallyExploredDame90]

This woman is dope AF ❤

[@bodacious9777]

Dopey pope NOPE

[@nathanrobinson7715]

At least she's trying to do something unlike the one putting this down. Yes if cars drove over it would produce micro plastics. But people walking over it is less weight. And places like this have less cars.

[@aperson696]

also at least its keeping it out OF OUR DAMN WATER SUPPLY plastic will always turn into microplastics no matter what

[@jeffa8683]

Building bricks is definitely worth it the compression strength is probably good for up to a 3 story home

[@alexandrarabinovici3826]

It seems to me that people care a lot ❤

[@sunshinenetherlight1571]

I am very grateful to these people who figured out a way to reuse plastic in a way that reduces the landfills and trashes in the ocean. So if we reuse the trash plastic into making products that use others materials we reduce the amount of both plastic and that other materials.

[@TheWowWowWest]

Absolutely! And I hope in the case of plastics, they can protect themselves better during production to avoid occupational illnesses. We need people like them to stick around! 🤞

[@kevinjoy155]

Yeah instead of plastic being in landfills it's now in your blood, lungs , food , water house. How great ? Plastic rather than staying in the ground it's in you

[@dan4653]

As someone with severe mold allergies, anything recycled can debilitating for me. This has the potential to be far more dangerous to me than many of you can imagine. Chemically convert the waste streams to something else. Don't just squeeze them into sponges oozing out toxins.

[@kevinjoy155]

@@dan4653 could not have said it better

[@user-nq8mm6oz8r]

You are who this world needs more of. Awesome

[@user-un8bw8bp8m]

Great videos! Not only are the people featured in them necessary for changing the problems in the world, but so too are the creators of such informative content to help facilitate awareness while fostering future game changing ideas in minds of individuals around the world. A sincere thanks goes out to everyone that plays a part in turning problems into postives, regardless of how big or small that role may be!

[@lisabierstedt5045]

I think you have done a excellent job of recycling trash to treasure. And your helping your country improve what you live like,look like,and healthly living for future families. Keep up your GREAT thinking and hard work. God bless you.

[@carlramirez6339]

I would like to thank these people for trying to fix our problems. However, I'm very worried for their health, especially those in the 2nd operation (the tyre recyclers in Nigeria).

[@ScribeAdept]

This video was made from recycling previous videos into a single offering.

[@EcomCarl]

Incredible initiative in utilizing waste materials to create sustainable construction bricks! 🌍 It's crucial for us to continue innovating while also addressing potential environmental impacts, such as microplastic release, to ensure these solutions are truly beneficial long-term.

[@PachaloKamanga]

Very true

[@moondog4313]

This is amazing that things gets recycled ♻️ ♻️ and kept out of the landfills

[@paquitoignacio3449]

This a brilliant product inventions, with good potential export to other countries, wishing them success for this venture.

[@1stPrinciples455]

Likes : innovative ideas sharing. Great narration.

[@vibrasieve]

This is a great job, turning waste into treasure

[@madmanmechanic8847]

Man I love this shit! I wish they had recycling here in Elko Nv everything just gets tossed in the land fill really pisses me off. I hate tossing out things that can be recycled

[@stevee8698]

Using plastic on roads will only cause more micro plastics as it wears down.

[@bramstikkel5713]

Impressive great work! My compliments!

[@FlorentCurk]

so good.. This lady deserve a nobel price ^^' This is a good way to transform the plastic durable since we find a real way to destroy it properlly.

[@AyupStuggy]

What a fantastic dynamic young lady.

[@HD-fc4ds]

They are making those for like 10 years and not a single road in Kenya covered in it. So cool story

[@via45]

Roads are not made of concrete man

[@nthedecent7717]

​@@via45😂😂😂

[@lunarfifthstudios]

Thank you for this!

[@ssweeps]

Wow. A whole 10 grand. She needs to expand. Give her millions to start. MR BEAST WHERE ARE YOU?

[@maggiehumble7822]

GREAT IDEA,,,wonderful jo

[@user-lp1rg1od7y]

Genius! I'm super impressed ❤😊

[@Titaanimation]

i want a world when we use natural jute bag for the groceries, gelatine plastique for hygienic food conservation (like fish or meat), and all sorts of woods for construction! like the old time

[@louera]

This is amazing!!

[@dennisf.macintyre117]

Though I like seeing it made into bricks, I would like to see the surface of these bricks made with indentations that would enable, after they were used to make walls for buildings, to be parged, i.e. covered with a lime or cement 3/8 to 1/2 inch covering spread over for fire-proofing and to eliminate the loss of, the erosion of micro- plastics, and what damage the sun might have if these bricks were not so covered. If it should prove that more strength is required in the bricks, perhaps chopped fiberglass strands might be considered to be added to the mix.

[@Henchman1977]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="387">6:27</a> if you're going to add subtitled at least do it correctly... "plastic being burned..."

[@angelmyra4444]

This channel is so informative!

[@lancerudy9934]

Great video thanks 😊

[@MrJackmandew]

Grind the plastic up and us it for a base on roads,, there's also a company in Canada that's making a brick like slumpstone that has a lip and easily stack up for building

[@StephanePlaisance]

Great dev project. But! What about improving the safety of these brave workers. I cannot believe the air they Breath is ok with plastic powder all over the place. Same for the final product subjected to rain wash in the streets.

[@ssweeps]

All the workers need to wear masks. Please.

[@barbaraness4507]

The main problem with trying to do this in the U.S. is there are so few recycling facilities, and especially collection sites. Ultimately the better solution is drastically decrease the amount of waste created.

[@Chr.U.Cas2216]

Unfortunately all this is only a re-upload and could already been watched some time ago.

[@josephvictorino2700]

The workers of Ghejenge must wear protective face mask and hand gloves for their own safety.The smell of melted plastics is very dangerous in health and environment.

[@liberty7361]

Great idea, but not sure if its safe to use for schools or in child rich environments. Curious to know if they tested for toxins/chemical releases from the finished product . . . ?

[@R0senza]

Hempcrete bricks would be a good solution for more sensitive environments. Easy, quick grow and sustainable.

[@robertschneider8210]

Awesome!!!

[@jeffthekillercriticremixer5968]

The micro plastic this process generates, is much smaller than landfill plastic. Our bodies over time will learn to process it. Pigs and goats process it now Adding starch to plastic can help break it down.. are you still work at an adhesive cat factory as a lab technician and we made plastic glues and one time some starts from another glue got into some of our plastic glue and we realized over time that glue began to decompose but I asked my boss why we didn't do this all the time to make a more safer biodegradable plastic and he told me it would cost too much

[@BlackHoleOfTime]

Should make something to build Home instead of cover larger areas where the water will rain on and go into the ground. When you could make smething to build the internal structure of a building that would last for a long time

[@duskintheforest584]

It still sequesters the plastic waste in a useful form.

[@duskintheforest584]

Bravo!

[@barbaraness4507]

The U.S. needs to do better about decreasing the amount of plastic, and other materials damaging the Earth, instead of just building trash mountains everywhere!

[@luizcoelho1267]

Nzambi is an inspiration! UN giving her only 10k USD?! That's not the way to go. When developing countrioes pour billions of dollars and things that are kind of useless, we as society should invest and reward people (and projects) like her.

[@donalddelabar767]

Don’t use it in roads, keep making bricks for side walks and courtyards and walls. If I had the money I would invest in that

[@ScrotN]

Problem with people who say we should stop using plastic would be "What's the substitute?" Deleting convenience would mean you need to have something better to offer. Sure educations and plastic reduction with recycling old plastic is one thing, but in the end you're only delaying the inevitable. Sure it may sound like it's helping, but what we need is knowledge. Not down right shut everyone up

[@chip582002]

I'm sure this isn't a new idea but can't you make things that wouldn't wear or not quickly like roads etc. I've seen the new printers that print all kinds of things from what appears to be some kind of plastic. Possibly some type of things for construction of buildings etc.

[@D.Frasure]

Very smart

[@lnwolf41]

Sadly none of the first world countries will adopt any of these systems, since you will never get people to sort through the garbage. Also it is much cheaper to ship our plastic waste to 3rd world countries. We should at least help expand these companies to process more plastic quicker.

[@OzyMandias13]

I don’t know the real answer to that question, but the pragmatic one is, “It’d better be!”. 😊

[@johnjohnf.webber1820]

Using these plastics as building materials looks like a good thing. There should be an incentive of buying or selling plastic garbage so that like aluminum cans or copper wire wastes people clean and store them for recycling and selling.

[@rskat501]

No need to clean aluminum that's going to be recycled

[@drjany593]

In Ghana someone already makes houses from recycled plastic waste

[@shorndavies4724]

What if the house of plastic bricks catches on fire, wouldn't it be poisonous fumes, pollution!

[@Shibinbasheer007]

🔥👍

[@runesvensson1244]

How much heavy metal is allowed in those bricks?

[@warshaq101]

I hope you have a link of there respective website.

[@Ok-vm7lg]

small solutions add up faster than developing big ones hahaha

[@netdoom]

The fumes really need to be tested…

[@piotrek5s170]

about fumes, making 1 ton of concrete releases several tons of co2

[@LightSourceTemple]

The fumes are carcinogenic

[@tbd5820]

Nice, is that a new substitute for asbestos?

[@SpectralonWhite]

Good on her. ❤👍

[@tarotofbread7720]

I know its too late to heal her but at least we are protecting our Earth rhe best we can now

[@King.Mark.]

fire ,heat,smell,water run off will be toxic as well

[@markcasila8310]

the question is what if a fire hapens i a school or house the plastic is flamable and also free highly dangerous quimics

[@shellylozano1052]

Fabric is the worst source of micro plastic quit buying cheap clothing people! And what ever you do , don't wash your clothes in water.

[@asdsad938]

How should we clean our clothes?

[@tarotofbread7720]

​@@asdsad938I guess he thinks everything gets dry cleaned 😅

[@besllu8116]

But, are they toxic, like under heat are there vapors?

[@DreamBike7]

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[@marcelb.7224]

we have to REDUCE Plastic!

[@chuckoaks6756]

It'll never happen on a large scale. Plastic companies won't have it and construction companies won't have it. It'll all go in the water or shipped and dumped in foreign countries like it is now.

[@crazyflboy8727]

India needs this

[@purpleprincess5995]

❤

[@jimysk8er]

I reject the notion that recycling plastics into bricks and asphalt would be worse than not recycling plastics at all. You are physically removing surface area exposed to the elements by encasing everything together compared to lose bits and bobs and containers. You will never convince me that using tar for roads is somehow less toxic than plastics. The majority of microplastics and pollution from roads are from vehicles anyways not from driving surfaces.

[@user-wh4oq7qd1f]

Goooodddddddd bless you ❤😢

[@agingmillennialmainer]

N95 works against plastic fumes?

[@badhombre4942]

Is anyone checking the toxicity of those products?

[@vincentsaputra]

Much better if societies reduce consuming packaged food and beverage.

[@Liam-ql7tr]

Lol and next trillions of tons of micro plastic particles into the water….LOL

[@AlbertBeharry]

What if it catches on fire?

[@rskat501]

What If a skyscraper collapses?

[@rockytop4]

Good point regular bricks won't burn ...there worthless just stop using plastic

[@sriharshacv7760]

India should not be quoted as an example for successful plastic management because we are 190 degrees the opposite of that. We are yet to ban asbestos for heaven's sake (technically we did ban asbestos mining but I fail to understand how importing it from Russia is somehow better). I am pretty sure there are greedy parties involved in the equation who are profiting the expense of commoners.

[@UKindness4]

All the he toxins placed in the original product s needs to be removed for it to be safe. They are to be commended.

[@Xuehuapiaopiao00]

First

[@pcs2511]

Is this in the US. I don,t think so. The FDA would have this tied up for years. The regs that that industry would have to follow would be endless.

[@mrn234]

Who said thats in the US or Europe? Nobody When it would be that great we would have seen it here already.

[@alexanderwicz3485]

is it cheaper? faster? then NO

[@dertyp4043]

please dont🤦 just stop , just think stop putting plastic in everything

[@thdbird83]

basically move the "landill" back into the city again. when we already spent so much engery (fuel of garbage trucks) putting away those trash to the landfill outside the city.

[@ww4575]

OSHA has entered the chat

[@datascienceindia8536]

So plastic tiles don't generate micro plastic, only roads does ?

[@udittlamba]

it depends on how much abrasion happens. And as that specialist said, the wear and tear is more on roads.

[@user-dq7wq7wo8c]

First to watch

[@andrewreynolds912]

Heres a fact we need two things. One we need to make safer plastics because they are found in all life and it contaminates everything even found in our lungs, our blood stream, our hearts, etc. Second we need bio degradable plastic even if yes bio plastic is better it still acts like regular plastic because it doesnt break down easily, that means we need bio degradable plastic that breaks down into harmless stuff thats much safer and isnt harmful within months not decades with microplastics.

[@acetegwa]

I agree with yer' ideas... So do you have a formula to make the perfect plastic?

[@rskat501]

Not feasible, not yet unfortunately

[@acetegwa]

Well, atleast humanity is doing something, better than doing nothing

[@andrewreynolds912]

@@acetegwa at least yea

[@andrewreynolds912]

@acetegwa the plastic just needs to be good but theirs no such thing as the perfect plastic

[@abovewater99]

Earthquakes exist. LoL

[@davidz2690]

So nice of jimmy kimmel to narrate this for us

[@PacificForager]

I am concerned about the safety of the workers, what is the odor at the factory? Will there be an air pollution?

[@rskat501]

Same thing happens in the USA

[@cheeririnaldo435]

Innovative ideas, but I wish these people were wearing masks for their safety.

[@umadbra]

I try to get glass jars...

[@InternallyExploredDame90]

Same. I don't have a plastic dish anywhere in my house

[@floydanderson8601]

Imagine the micro plastics, and carcinogenic fumes which will leak overtime in our bodies from this. I cringed when I saw the title of this video. Do your research people, why would you want to surround yourself with harmful materials. If this happens imagine what it would do to pregnant woment and children. Remember the power lines issue which was causing alot of disabalities in babies? Initially totally refuted by private and public sectors