A house made from recycled-plastic blocks turns construction into a quick 5-day assembly, and that could change how cheap homes are built

Recycled plastic bricks are revolutionizing quick-build homes. See how this modular construction technique cuts costs and ...

Modular recycled-plastic blocks can snap together into a small house in five days, and the puzzle-style system could cut labor, waste, and site delays

A house built in five days sounds like a promise made for a viral video. Yet modular recycled-plastic bricks are now being ...
Inhabitat

Taming plastic waste with silica plastic blocks

In a bid to curb plastic waste pollution, India-based company Rhino Machines has invented a way of using plastic to make construction blocks. The silica plastic blocks (SPBs) are strong enough to ...
CNN

This company is turning heaps of plastic trash into construction building blocks

Imagine taking heaps and heaps of earth-polluting, unusable plastic waste and actually transforming it into something constructive? Plastic pollution is a proliferating and increasingly overwhelming ...
Phys.org

How plastics could help build a sustainable future

The disposal of plastics is a global problem. They are nearly indestructible in natural conditions but are discarded worldwide on a large scale. The world produces around 359 million metric tons of ...

Hyderabad gets first footpath made entirely of recycled plastic paver blocks

The GHMC has completed Hyderabad’s first footpath made entirely of recycled plastic paver blocks at Somajiguda. Developed as ...